Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adoption of war waifs is a wholesome proposition. In the weeks ahead, speedy removal of children who were separated from their families in the latest mass retreat might mean, in some cases, spiriting away tots whose parents are still alive. In addition, many Vietnamese view rather dimly the Western concept of adoption. They have a strong sense of cultural identity and do not often accept the common (and chauvinistic) American view that a Vietnamese orphan can do no better than come to the U.S. to be raised as an American...
...students' major proposals is that the DuBois Institute should have ties to the black community, both through seminars and colloquia open to the public and through socially relevant, research projects. In flatly rejecting this concept. Brimmer and the advisory board are accepting an outmoded Harvard ideal of the isolated academic, studying the world from an ivory tower. This ideal is now totally unrealistic--in most departments, academics shuttle between the University and the "real world...
...unpractical and wrong to structure the DuBois Institute around this outmoded concept of academia. While there is an important need for scholarly work in Afro-American Studies, the Institute should be open to researchers who will not isolate themselves from the current social and political issues affected by their work...
...beyond these political and economic considerations, the military coup in Chile represents a violent attack upon our entire concept of human rights. The whole world is horrified by the brutality with which the junta has operated, its widespread use of imprisonment without charges or trials, its beatings, rape, torture and murder of prisoners...
...Kissinger shuttle talks failed because Israel was being asked to give back to Egypt defensive positions in Sinai of the most vital importance, in exchange for "something less than non-belligerency," according to State Department officials. Non-belligerency is actually something less than a peace treaty, and is a concept which Kissinger began floating after the October War to spare Egypt the onus of signing a peace treaty with Israel, and yet create a situation in which both sides would renounce the use of force for an indefinite period. For something less even than this already dubious possibility, Israel...