Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this course fails," said one key man, "it would hurt the prospects for future black courses. There is great concern over demonstrations against the course, fear that an attempt will be made to close it down. The administrators are trying to face all possibilities realistically--but it's possible that by being so concerned with developing antidotes, we're actually helping to create some of the symptoms. Particularly worrisome is the possibility of a picket line which students, and perhaps even Freidel, would not cross...
...revolution to chal lenge the present generation, and many young Russians find indoctrination a bore. The growing dissent and dissatisfaction in Russia doubtlessly have infected the Komsomol, along with other elements of Soviet society. Party Secretary General Leonid Brezhnev underlined the leadership's concern when he told Komsomoltsy in his 50th anniversary speech: "Class enemies disguising themselves as the friends of youth strive to draw politically unstable, inexperienced young people into their nets to blunt their class and revo lutionary vigilance with false arguments of a bourgeois liberal nature." After that lofty en garde, Brezhnev complained about the poor...
...absence of rational content is what is worth thinking about. It is not just that The People vs. Ranchman is a bad play. It is not out to be a good one, in terms of drama's traditional concern with fate, foibles, language and ideas. Like the propaganda playlets of guerrilla theater (TIME, Oct. 18), this play is intended to be a felt experience for the audience-firsthand rather than projected. Yelling and chanting, the actors mingle with the playgoers on the way to their seats. No makeup is used, the lights are always up, there is no intermission...
Most bankers disavow voracious intentions. They are, after all, sensitive to the popular concern that banks, with their vast resources, could grab too much control over the economy if permitted to do so. "We don't want to go into the steel business," says Chairman George S. Moore of Manhattan's First National City Bank, which recently won approval from Comptroller of the Currency William B. Camp to turn itself into a one-bank holding company...
Like those of pure revolutionaries, saints and some hippies, Solzhenitsyn's views are not political, except where they concern (as they inevitably do) a hostile, worldly society. Like saints and pure revolutionaries, but unlike most hippies, Solzhenitsyn's heroes have spent a lifetime learning the absolute value of simplicity...