Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What most heartened the Tories and depressed the Laborites was a new Gallup poll that shows the Conservatives leading 49% to 41% . The shift in public opinion is doubtless due to Wilson's tough austerity measures intended to save the battered pound sterling. At week's end London was swept by rumors that the U.S. was withdrawing support from the pound and that the Bank of England's Lord Cromer had threatened to resign if the pound was not devalued. Wilson labeled the rumors false and "highly neurotic." Before setting off on a holiday in the Scilly...
...great changes in artistic vision of the 20th century was the shift from the classical ideals of Greek and Roman statuary to a larger view that accepted primitive art as no less human and as equally beautiful. Artists, especially the cubists, began collecting African artifacts, were soon exploiting their untrammeled, expressionistic energy in their own painting; gradually sculpture long thought fit only for ethnological institutes began moving into galleries, museums and homes as objects of artistic merit. Yet this eager interest in African art could not have happened without the brief, tragic encounter of two civilizations...
Until last fall, Graves's conviction would have stood like Gibraltar. But in Escobedo v. Illinois, the Supreme Court ruled that the right to counsel begins when police shift from investigation to accusation. And in People v. Dorado, which the Supreme Court recently refused to review, California's highest state court went even further. It ruled that police failure to advise a suspect of his rights to counsel and silence invalidates his confession even if he does not ask for a lawyer...
...Shift in Tactics. Personable Lawyer Wien, 60, and shy Broker-Manager Helmsley, 56, pioneered the promotion of large-scale syndicates. Much of their property is held in common with about 10,000 other people, disarmingly described by Helmsley as "friends who go into these investments with us." The pals have included Wall Streeters John L. Loeb and Clifford W. Michel, and the syndicated holdings range from Manhattan's Plaza Hotel to properties in Los Angeles, Detroit, Buffalo, Dayton and Daytona Beach...
...denunciation of birth control. Five years after it appeared, German Theologian Herbert Doms was tentatively proposing a personalist theology of marriage that gave primacy to love rather than childbearing. Although the Vatican at the time criticized Doms's theories, papal statements on marriage were soon to shift emphasis. Even as he denounced "the pill" as immoral in 1951, Pope Pius XII strongly affirmed the spiritual values of sex. "The conjugal act," he said, "is a personal action, which, according to the word of the Scriptures, effects the union 'in one flesh alone...