Word: stillnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first rules in life that a child learns is that you don't take something that isn't yours. This property was paid for and owned by someone else. What the hippies did with the property was a very gentle thing, but it still was not theirs. I would like to take possession of the Wilshire area to develop into a lovely park but it's not mine...
...accept one of the other formulas that have been proposed. One solution, for example, might be to let each side retain the areas it now controls while a neutral commission supervises balloting. Another might be an international commission to run the government while both sides compete at the polls. Still another might be what one diplomat calls a "Tammany Hall" solution-some yet unknown equation satisfying neither side but acceptable to both...
...Congress would no longer be setting wage rates, the employees would have the right to collective bargaining. Postal rates under the Nixon reform would be recommended by a separate three-man advisory group whose suggestions would be acted upon by the nine-man controlling board; however, rate changes would still require congressional approval...
This change in morality is most prominently approved by those in the upper reaches of achievement: professional men and women, the college-educated, the prosperous citizens of suburbia. They are joined by young people under 30 and, in many instances, by the blacks. The moral conservatives, those who still cling tightly to the old verities, are mainly to be found among those over 50 and in the lower-income, less-educated sectors, especially in small towns. In the matter of morality, there are virtually two Americas...
Americans still readily invoke the conventional catalogue of moral precepts: 93% rate the Golden Rule as very important, and a large majority say that they turn to it for guidance when confronted with a moral dilemma. The statement that "nothing is more important than family love and respect" draws the approval of 90%, and "hard work pays off" has the assent of 79%. Similarly, 77% say that they turn for moral guidance to the values their parents taught them, and 73% look to "the religious rules I was raised...