Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eakins' approach to the 19th century Catholic personality. There was a great religious crisis at that time. As a man who had stood up to criticism himself, he sympathized with men who followed a similar course." Indeed, the publication of Darwin's theory of evolution and the widespread acceptance of scientific method shook the church to its foundations. The depth of the crisis, as Eakins saw it, can be measured in each man's eyes. Not all of the clerics liked what he saw. The rector of St. Charles, Patrick Garvey, remembered today as a "stern, quarrelsome...
...rest of the nation was more skeptical than Bay Staters. Yet the country was ambivalent. A Louis Harris poll commissioned by TIME revealed much sympathy for Kennedy. At the same time, the national survey found widespread doubts about Kennedy's explanation (see box, page...
...public gave Kennedy high marks for his performance in the Senate. Yet the TIME-Harris poll reflects a widespread uneasiness about Kennedy as a presidential possibility. Forty percent agreed with the statement that "he panicked in a crisis and showed that he should not be given high public trust, such as being President"; 15% were not sure; 45% disagreed with the judgment...
...nearly as se rious thus far as they might have been. George Wallace, for in stance, did far less well among Northern lower-middle-class whites than had been predicted. A TIME correspondent ex plains part of the reason: "I find the bitterness of these whites so deep, so widespread that I whistle in relief that they are not organized for action. Were they as cohesive as stu dents, as densely packed as ghetto Negroes, there is little rea son to doubt that sullenness would become confrontation...
...braindamaged, the retarded, and children with other mental conditions that are more amenable to treatment than autism. The parents of autistics, who make up most of the N.S.A.C.'s 700 members, are lobbying to force all states to provide this kind of care through the public schools. So widespread is the feeling that children with severe mental illness can never be helped, says N.S.A.C. Legislative Chairman Herman Preiser, that only six states make it mandatory to provide any education for them...