Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solution may seem based more on faith than on sound strategy. Local regulatory agencies can hardly match the financial or legal power of corporations that value profit more than zoning, productivity more than preserving jobs. Regulation of corporate giants may require government that is equally powerful. Moreover C. Wright Mills may be right. Intertwined leadership in government and business may make impossible any serious regulation of industrial expansion. Further, to finance regulatory programs will require an active Congress. There is little hope of changing the conservative legislative balance so long as Congressional races are decided more often on personality...
...training, with the earthquake that left him an orphan at 14, and with the Fascists, who killed his sole surviving brother. Many of these details appeared in Silone's contribution to The God That Failed (1949), a collection of confessional essays by ex-Communists, including Koestler and Richard Wright...
Honkified Deity. Dr Nathan Wright Jr., an Episcopal priest from Newark, told the meeting that blacks must get rid of the "honkified God" who, he charged, has been imposed on Negroes by white Christians. The Rev. Herbert Bell Shaw, a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and president of the committee, called on the group to evolve "a message and a dynamic leadership for the peculiar and urgent needs of the black people." The present religious task, added the Rev. Melvin Talbert, a Methodist district superintendent in California, "is to help black people find themselves, to restore...
...close of the meeting last night, Brewster said, "We will reconsider the question of the optional residence of transfers in residential colleges, if it can be done without overcrowding existing facilities." He also promised to reconsider housing freshman women in Wright Hall, presently used for overflow freshmen housing Brewster had Warned that requiring women to live in predominantly male dorms could cause recruitment difficulties...
...Stan Wright, a Negro assistant track coach for sprinters, commented that "if Negroes want to demonstrate, I don't think they need the Harvard crew...