Word: concernments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were likely to have a war before we would have world government. On the other hand, I urged the most careful and prayerful consideration of any partial disarmament measures that might prove feasible and suggested a few tentative ones. Measures to avert war must be of course the deepest concern of everybody at this moment. Henry A. Kissinger Lecturer on Government
...exhibits, however, fell victime to the charges that they were not typical of everyday America. There was concern lest visitors thought that every American child played with the elaborate modern toys on display. One filmstrip on life in these United States included a housewife flying her plane to the grocery. And people who do not care for modern art protested that the exhibit of contemporary paintings and sculpture was unrepresentative...
...closely plotted plot deals with two men whose relationship bears many points of resemblance to that subsisting between Gladstone Gander and Donald Duck. Donald is the hero of the play the "patate" (helpfully defined in the program as "schmoe; patsy; fall guy.") It turns out, however, that his primary concern for several decades has been to nourish vengeful, bitter (and, admittedly, not unjustified) hatreds against his rich "friend," meanwhile nourishing himself by borrowing the friend's money. The patate is presented as a sweet guy, but in spite of the fact that he really is a patate, he is quite...
...discriminate, so I was somewhat surprised and dismayed to discover the large degree of discrimination which does exist. I reported this fact to the woman who is in charge of Harvard housing, who informed me that nothing could be done unless the Negroes themselves objected. My main concern is, if this be the case, and a Negro couple were to track down the apartments themselves, a landlord would only have to see them to say that he was sorry but he was filled up, and the question of whether or not he discriminated would be indeterminate...
Though stressing Roosevelt's success in manipulating his fellow students at Harvard, Freidel urged that F.D.R. was nevertheless activated by a genuine concern for people, thinking in terms of personalities rather than collective statistics...