Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more serious theme of the class's years here. McCarthy scared Harvard. Charging that the faculty was "pink-tinged," he created an atmosphere of mistrust and precipitated internal struggles at the University. David L. Shapiro, professor of Law, says, "The fact of McCarthyism was our significant external concern--the only time we felt acutely the presence of the outside world...
...returns were watched with an unusual interest in the U.S., which has a natural concern about the political stability of a country that is not only its neighbor but also a key supplier of oil, natural gas and other raw materials. In recent years Washington has been jittery about Quebec's volatile separatist movement and has privately applauded Trudeau's efforts to control it. State Department officials expect no significant changes in U.S.-Canada relations as a result of Clark's victory. But they acknowledge that it will take some time for the new Prime Minister...
...with him and the Secretary of State." In mid-May, Strauss announced that he would make his first visit to Cairo and Jerusalem in his new role at the end of June, two months earlier than he originally intended. This burst of energy in his new assignment caused some concern in Washington that as a confessed novice in the nuances of Middle Eastern diplomacy, Strauss might complicate U.S. problems in this sensitive region, especially as Palestinian autonomy talks got under...
...that composers should deal with big social and philosophical issues. From his anti-Nazi -oratorio, A Child of Our Time (1941), through such an instrumental-cwra-vocal work as his Symphony No. 3 (1972), he has charted the precarious survival of humanistic values in a violent, technological age. This concern has been central to his operas. The Midsummer Marriage (1952) plumbed myth and folklore in search of Jungian archetypes of spiritual wholeness...
...Class Committee envisioned three main goals in establishing the Biko Fund. First, it allows individuals who otherwise would not have contributed to make a positive statement against University investment policy. Second, the existence and support of the Fund will be a symbol of discontent and concern over the current situation in South Africa. Third, the Fund will provide direct support for the undergraduate education of black and colored South Africans at Harvard...