Word: topic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scholarly theory. Among 15 student-initiated areas of study offered last year at the Berkeley campus of the University of California was a course on poverty, in which students lived in an Oakland ghetto, and a class on the political and intellectual relationship between universities and the state, a topic that understandably arouses strong emotions...
...subject was abortion, virtually unthinkable as a topic of public discussion only a few years ago. The sponsors of the Washington conference of physicians, sociologists, theologians and jurists were an unlikely pair: the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation and the Harvard Divinity School. Eunice Kennedy Shriver explained for the foundation that it was concerned with the subject because abortion has been recommended as a means of reducing the number of children doomed to mental retardation. Harvard Theologian Herbert W. Richardson said the conference was designed to put public discussion of abortion on a higher plane...
...Hooft, then general secretary of the W.C.C., called it one of the "most historic events since the Reformation." Since then, discussions between the W.C.C., which represents 223 Protestant and Orthodox churches, and the Vatican have become commonplace; in fact, relations with the Roman Catholic Church was the major topic at the twelve-day meeting of the central committee of the W.C.C. that came to a close in Herakleion, Crete, last week...
...farm hard by the hill-country hamlet of Guildhall, Vt. (pop. 250), to eat strawberry shortcake on paper plates and set their sights for the coming year. Last week they were at it again, gathering in a 150-year-old barn for a round of seminars and lectures (sample topic: "The Government-Industry Paradox: Serenity, Seduction or Surrender") aimed at keeping their dynamic company on the move...
...covers are meant to shout "Look at us! Look how outrageous we can be!" Sometimes the contents match the packaging. Every month, at least one Esquire article snipes at a sacred cow or takes some other unorthodox approach to a topic in the news. Recently, the magazine has offered "The Holy Kennedys," "The Late General MacArthur, Warts and All," "Bobby Baker Has It Made," "Two Cheers for the National Geographic," "In Defense of Cassius Clay," "The Life and Suspiciously Hard Times of Anthony Quinn," and "The American Newspaper Is Neither Record, Mirror, Journal, Ledger, Bulletin, Telegram, Examiner, Register, Chronicle, Gazette...