Word: watchwords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Less spectacularly but not less decisively, Protestantism has been stirred by a flurry of experimentation in liturgy, church structure, ministry. In this new Christianity, the watchword is witness: Protestant faith now means not intellectual acceptance of an ancient confession, but open commitment?perhaps best symbolized in the U.S. by the civil rights movement?to eradicating the evil and inequality that beset the world...
...hard on the heels of op artists, who address their work to the retina, has come a widespread number of "kinetic" artists, who try to combine mechanics and art. They are exploiting the human eye's capacity to perceive motion, and their work is the newest watchword on the fast-moving international gallery scene. Manhattan's avant-garde Jewish Museum is currently showing 102 works by kineticism's established practitioners, Jean Tinguely and Nicolas Schöffer. In Boston's Institute of Contemporary Arts, Matisse's grandson Paul is showing his Kalliroscope, an oozing suspension...
...week Johnson's watchword was "responsibility"-a watchword that has proved tried and true in many another U.S. election year. But "responsibility" has many aspects, and one of them is accountability. And many a U.S. voter might feel that the President should be held accountable for a domestic event that burst onto the nation's front pages even amid the cannonade of foreign news: the resignation of Johnson's senior aide, Walter W. Jenkins, after disclosure of the fact that he had been arrested as a sexual deviate...
...very fortunate to have among us a man who is supremely competent. He is a man who, in the past four years, has been responsible for spending $50 billion a year on our nation's defense. He is a man whose watchword is economy. He comes from a business background where he had the job of running the entire Ford Motor Co. He is also the man who has been running our war in South Viet Nam, a war that we are going to win any day. Now! Fellow Americans! I give you the next Vice President...
Many Americans will share Durant's broad indignation, many will dissent from it. But one of the remarkable facts is that there is much less indignation in the churches today-at least as far as sexual morality goes. The watchword is to be positive, to stress the New Testament's values of faith, hope and charity rather than the prohibitions of the Commandments...