Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Negro leadership could make a start toward lowering Negro crime rates by abandoning the conspiracy of concealment and urging full disclosure of the facts to be met. Once they faced the facts, Negro leaders and organizations-including the N.A.A.C.P.-could help by wholeheartedly undertaking short-term efforts of rehabilitation, by accepting responsibility in an area where they habitually look the other...
...human merits. Negroes are more prone than whites to break the laws, rules and customs of society because they are excluded from full membership in it. In gross and subtle ways, from unwritten bans on employing Negroes to the faintly patronizing tone that even liberal-hearted whites take toward them, Negroes are made to feel alien and inferior. This pervasive discrimination holds down capable Negroes at the top of the social ladder, dims their voices among their own people, builds up tensions and resentments inside the Negro society, and keeps great masses of Negroes segregated in ghettos where the standards...
...slanting of material was intentional. Secondly, what he objects to in the current resurgence of interest in religion is what most of those concerned with that resurgence would object to if they happened to see the situation as he see it. They do not, however, perceive any significant movement toward restricting the courage to think or the expression of one's thoughts. To many it must appear that Mr. Bartley has set up a straw man which he can easily knock down with the full approbation of the Harvard community, but that his ecclesiastical, pietistic ogre is really nothing more...
...congregation at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church of New York City knew him as a staunch defender of all faiths and as a minister firmly opposed to anti-Semitism. While at Harvard, despite some impressions to the contrary, he has leaned toward inter-faith use of Memorial Church as far as the official or unofficial rulings of the Corporation would allow...
...writing a book; it'll be the story of my life. I'm writing it for Thomas Nelson and Sons." He chuckled to himself. "They're the publishers of the Revised Edition of the Bible." His gaze fixed on the emptiness outside his hotel window. Then he turned toward me. "I guess it's sort of fitting that we 'revisionists' should come together...