Word: statements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Educational Affairs Division's goal is "to devise original educational methods to liberate Black people from the educational distortions manifested in traditional learning environments," a statement released yesterday by Harris said. The Division's working theme is, "what you don't know, learn; and what you learn: teach...
...while the effort to revitalize the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) is a commendable one, Carter's hyperbolic labeling of it as "one of the most important actions to improve civil rights in the last decade" gives reason for pause. Though he later modified this statement, it indicates a narrow view of the potential of creative civil rights legislation. Perceiving a bureaucratic adjustment of this kind as "major" leaves little room for the truly important civil rights reforms still left undone...
...World Wildlife Fund first became aware of the problem through a story that appeared in Newsweek magazine on January 9. It sent several letters to Princess Grace asking that she make a statement to clarify the situation, but received no response...
MARRIAGE," a friend once said, "is nothing more than having someone to go down the drain with." Obviously, not everyone will subscribe to this view, but the statement indicates the paranoid feelings almost everyone does have about that important--and hopefully permanent--linkage. The prospects are particularly frightening to baby-boom era children; at least one out of three marriages we have seen are no longer extant, and over 40 per cent of new marriages are doomed to failure. Yet people still fall in love and decide to wed. The rest of your life is a hard thing to face...
...through space; Cunningham himself falls dead-weight on a group of dancers and is dragged across the floor like a sack; later, he is tossed up and down between two dancers the way two children would flip an unwieldy pillow. There is no hint of moral implication or sociological statement in Cunningham's unlikely equation. Instead, he catches the audience off-balance with an impishly daring physical metaphor in order to explore an aspect of the way bodies move in space...