Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down the state's highways as they trudged toward the statehouse in Jackson last week. Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell gave it voice when he told the graduating class of Washington's predominantly Negro Howard University to resist "the seductive blandishments of the white liberals" and seek "audacious power-black power." Members of two of the major civil rights groups, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Congress of Racial Equality, mouth it over and over. "Integration is irrelevant," cries SNCC Chairman Stokely Carmichael, 24. "Political and economic power is what the black people have to have...
Martin Luther King specifically sought to rebut the evangelists of black power. "It is absolutely necessary for the Negro to gain power," he said, "but the term black power is unfortunate because it tends to give the impression of black nationalism. We must never seek power exclusively for the Negro but the sharing of power with the white people...
...flesh in The Merchant of Venice," says Harvard Law Professor Jerome Cohen. "The important thing is human relations. You imply a lack of trust when you allow for disputes in contracts." If disputes arise, they are settled through face-to-face negotiations or through an intermediary, who will seek a compromise rather than a victory for the "right...
Modern industry also must have social and economic units far bigger than the family, the city or the region. It requires education not as a means of imparting fixed dogma but as a process of training the mind to seek its own answers. In short, the secret of Western success is not merely technology, but the Promethean or Faustian spirit...
Pressures: Easing. Businessmen seek ing credit to buy other companies, spec ulate in real estate or build up inven tories are having a tough time. Few lenders anywhere seem willing to take on new corporate customers, and many now insist that companies keep hefty cash balances on deposit if they want credit. It is getting harder to keep those deposits up. Last week corporations made their quarterly income tax payments, and because of the speedup in collections this year, the bill came to $8.7 billion, nearly 17% more than last year. Partly to pay their taxes, and partly to finance...