Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...live in the great arc of eleven nations that stretches beneath the southern rim of Russia and China. From Pakistan to Indonesia, the countries of South Asia seem, however, to have more than two-thirds of the world's problems: grinding poverty, ruinous population growth, feeble economies, the burden of colonial pasts and, in Southeast Asia, armed Communist aggressors. In a new book published this week, Asian Drama, Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal suggests that the bulk of South Asia's troubles lie not so much in history or lack of natural resources as in the Asians themselves...
Second, and worse, the burden will fall most heavily on scholarship students. The Financial Aid Office has announced that scholarships to students off-campus will increase by $70 to match the rise to scholarship students living on-campus and to cover general increases in living costs. But, despite the scholarship increase, it will be $55 more expensive for a scholarship student to live off-campus than in the past--and this is precisely the kind of "influence" on patterns of residency that Gill has denied and that the College should try to avoid...
...Manhattan's Lincoln Center now see this tragic confrontation between the Greeks and the Trojans as a cautionary parable of the U.S. commitment in Viet Nam, though the analogy is wrenchingly sophomoric. The sad fact is that Tiger cannot carry its own dramatic weight, let alone the added burden of historical allusion. It suffers from the most telling weakness of antiwar plays-Sherman said it better and shorter...
...ACLU decision may ease the financial burden of the Civil Liberties Legal Defense Fund, Robert A. Rosenthal, lecturer in Education and the Fund's chairman, said yesterday...
...said that there was some real reason to expect that a civilian government in South Vietnam, with the burden of a military war and leadership lifted from it, could well come to some sort of agreement with the National Liberation Front. I asked him and pressed him about what would happen after an agreement in the South. Unification, he felt, would ultimately come. After all Vietnam was one country; Vietnamese were fundamentally one people...