Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both professed deep concern for the poor, and particularly for Negroes. When McCarthy complained about a congressional cutback in funds for public housing, Kennedy went him one better by declaring that public housing is a failure anyway and repeated his belief in greater involvement by the private sector...
...ones have been affected more than they show. Those who are in the really new mold sometimes show it by a defiance in dress: beards beneath the mortarboards, microskirts or faded Levis under the academic gowns. More often, and far more significantly, it emerges in a growing skepticism and concern about the accepted values and traditions of American society. Some of these graduates will become draft dodgers. Many smoke pot. Fewer than ever remain virginal. Yet it is also true that the cutting edge of this class includes the most conscience-stricken, moralistic and, perhaps, the most promising graduates...
...does not regard his decision not to serve an act of disloyalty: "What I am patriotic to is a just nation and a just policy?when the nation changes from this, I find myself standing in opposition to it." As a sophomore, Hyndman developed a profound concern about racial prejudice on a hitchhiking trip to the annual spring beach-and-beer busts in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. When he and a Negro friend tried to check into a cheap hotel in Durham, N.C., a desk clerk barked: "Niggers can't live here." "I've never seen as much hate as that...
ANONYMITY encourages a student to throw a bottle out a high window without concern for hurting someone or fear of being spotted among a huge grid of windows. It is a feeling that leaves a greater sense of detachment from the administration. As an emotional act, sitting-in the president's office brought the argument of the demonstrators into an understandable reality. Before, their debate was not so much arrogant as unknown...
...some schools a concern for racial problems has affected blacks' attitudes toward athletics. At Berkeley a basketball player refused to cut his "Afro,"--long hair--and, in support, some other players quit the team...