Word: tokenisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bayard Rustin's short, somewhat muddled article is the least interesting in the issue. Admitting that the civil rights movement has won only token victories against social and economic barriers to "genuine freedom"--"a handful of jobs here, a few school pairings there,"--he calls for planning across class lines and state lines. And he doesn't stop there: "I am more and more in favor of abolition of the states altogether...
...Priority. In his war against poverty, Belaúnde has set up cooperación popular, a self-help plan for rural Indian communities in which the government provides tools and technical advice and the Indians build roads and airstrips. But he has been able to make only a token start on his favorite project: a vast superhighway system across the Andes to open the fertile Amazon Valley to settlers...
...carefully calculates the effect of his every word and deed. Last week, when he called the first consistory of his pontificate for Feb. 22 and named 27 new cardinals, his choice of the men to be honored was clearly an example of thoughtful Pauline diplomacy: there was a token of reward for almost every shade of opinion in the church...
...TOKEN OF A COVENANT by Hans Graf von Lehndorff. 328 pages. Regnery...
...earners moonlight in order to build on an extra room or buy a new freezer. The consumer can make the economy rise by trading up from hamburger to steak, buying an air conditioner to replace the window fan or taking that long-planned trip to Europe. By the same token, he has the power to slow or reverse the economic advance by deciding to postpone his purchases. "The consumer is the key to our economy," says Macy's Jack Straus. "When the country has a recession, it suffers not so much from problems of production as from problems...