Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...then tries to evade the consequences of his actions is not a man of principle-he is a vandal. The moral force of his opposition to laws that he considers unjust comes when he accepts the responsibility and the consequences of his actions. As Thoreau stated in Civil Disobedience: "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison...
...nearly six years as a correspondent for TIME, Peter Forbath has reported the civil war in Cyprus, the Viet Nam War, the Six-Day War in the Middle East and the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. So it was with some trepidation that Forbath, now posted to the New York bureau, set out to help report this week's cover story on John Fairchild, publisher of Women's Wear Daily and ardent promoter of the controversial midiskirt. "I'm rediscovering America," says Forbath. "I found the fashion world more alien to me than Africa, Southeast Asia or Eastern...
Unruh still lives with his wife and three of their five children in the $48,000 house that he bought nine years ago in Inglewood. He was once a Civil War buff, but in the past year his reading has been chiefly political. His hobbies are largely confined to listening to western music and lying...
Whatever difficulties remain in making school desegregation work, most legal obstacles have been flattened by a combination of legislation and court rulings. Already the civil rights movement is confronting its next frontier: segregated housing. Reformers are finding the challenge there even tougher than the educational color bar has been...
...told a congressional committee last week that Washington would not cut off such funds as a means of compelling local action to facilitate residential integration. A presidential advisory panel had urged the White House to use the withholding of subsidies as a weapon, a measure favored by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. As in the school desegregation area, the federal judiciary is ahead of the executive. Items...