Word: widens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take drugs for a while and come out know-why you don't need them, then you have really learned. "There are many different levels of consciousness, and the down undrugged world is only one of them. Experimenting with drugs," he concluded, "is the easiest way to widen your perspectives...
This may be a rather naive form of hubris. But even the more cautious futurists are caught up in a renewed sense of human freedom. "The function of prediction," says Columbia's Daniel Bell, "is not, as often stated, to aid social control, but to widen the spheres of moral choice." And Bertrand de Jouvenel has suggested that various types of future should be portrayed on TV, allowing the public to vote in a referendum on "the future of your choice." The chief message of the futurists is that man is not trapped in an absurd fate but that...
...resulting political struggle has been one of the most divisive in recent Cambridge history. The Curry supporters seem to have done everything possible to widen the split in the Council. They have constantly harried the new mayor, Daniel J. Hayes Jr. Though Hayes' inexperience with the gavel has resulted in some parliamentary mistakes, much of the needling he has received has been unnecessary and pointless. The Curry supporters have delibrately prolonged the debate and unearthed details of political maneuvering that have been, for the most part, irrelevant and embarrassing to all the councillors...
...despite the real gains brought by such legislation as the Voting Rights Act and the poverty program. The big cities are in need of imaginative renewal if they are to remain livable. There are chinks in the President's all-embracing and long-enduring consensus that could widen into cracks before year's end. Under prodding to hold the line on prices, the business community is growing restless and resentful...
...pressure on Moscow to bring about negotiations and simultaneously to widen the split in the Communist camp, Johnson sent Ambassador Harriman to Poland, Yugoslavia, Hungary, and even Soviet-oriented Egypt. With the increased escalation of the war, the Vietnamese Communists find themselves increasingly dependent on the Russians for advanced military and economic aid. The Russians thus can increase their influence in Hanoi either by sending more rockets or by bringing about a negotiated settlement. Johnson's diplomatic initiative is aimed at strengthening the latter possibility...