Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organizers also felt that a union--especially one connected with the AFT--would have a straight wages-and-hours bias both inappropriate for the university community and inadequate for the variety of issues to be considered. They worried that the concept of trade unionism also might offend some teaching fellows, who often consider themselves professionals or future professionals...
...consciousness about his race. "It's not purely a Negro problem. It's a social and economic problem?an American problem," he says. He sees racial problems as essentially a conflict between "haves and have-nots," rather than between blacks and whites. He has been stonily hostile toward the concept of black power. "That slogan has struck fear in the heart of black America as well as in the heart of white America," says Brooke. "The civil rights bill of 1966 was lost because of rioting and violence. The Negro has to gain allies?not adversaries...
...urgently required was a program of national reconcilation. You remember the second inaugural address of President Lincoln. The government of South Vietnam, and the governments, of North Vietnam are governments, and we do no task that the government of North Vietnam relinquish its role as a government. The basic concept we seek to advance is a very simple one. That is, that there be a grounding of arms so that bloodshed and violence shall cease; that there be an opportunity for all to participate in the democratic process that will bring a truly civilian government to that part...
...this than by trying to bring people together, to accommodate their points of view, to try to arrive at sense, to try to settle their problems by principles of freedom. I, myself, do not want to live under conditions that are not free conditions. I don't accept the concept that that is the type of life that I am ready to lead. Therefore I think the basic principle that is here which we are struggling with--a very difficult principle--is how to discharge our responsibilities in the world as a world power and permit people, as I said...
...University, will be lasting in effect. For example, in the College this year, the Harvard Policy Committee proposed that all students be allowed to take a free fifth course and have it graded only on a "pass-fail" basis. The Committee for Educational Policy has accepted this concept, added some details of its own, and now will put it before the full Faculty. If the proposal is passed, it will probably mean a significant increase in the academic workload of many students in the College. Likewise, the two-year debate on General Education has been completed...