Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro leadership: "The leaders of the Negro revolution have no faith in the Negro masses, no concern for them. When I hear Stokely Carmichael, he's always asking, 'Give me the can opener, so I'll open the cans of power and eat them.' You waste your energies on demonstrations, on riots. They do not produce one atom of pride. You know the chemistry of pride, Mr. Sevareid? Pride. This is what the Negro needs, see. Viet Nam is going to do to the Negro what Israel has done for the Jews...
Sexuality is a specific area of moral concern in which psychiatry has helped religion redefine its concept of sin. In the past, Christian moralists almost unanimously regarded fornication as an unqualified evil. Now, some churchmen are inclined to admit that it may be morally permissible, in those rare situations when it satisfies a true need between two adults who fulfill each other. Says Dr. Edward Craig Hobbs of the Episcopal Church Divinity School of the Pacific: "The whole matter of sexual morality is now subject to a different understanding that comes from psychiatry and ultimately from Freud." The Rev. Richard...
From that moment, it was apparent that the Chief was to be a judge whose concern and feeling for the individual tended to outweigh his reliance on specific precedents of the law. During oral arguments before the court, it became his custom to break into a lawyer's taut legalistic reasoning and ask: "Yes, but is it fair?" In Reynolds v. Sims, which in 1964 extended "one man, one vote" to both houses of state legislatures, he wrote for the majority: "Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic...
...University has its own Research Contract Office which did $55 million worth of business with the government during the last fiscal year. Most of the money from Washington paid for individual professors' research into matters of concern to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. But some of this money, paid for research into issues of interest to government agencies dealing with foreign problems--the State Department, Defense Department, Agency for International Development, and Atomic Energy Commission...
Such disciplines, it is thought, should be of greater concern to college students than international politics, social theory, applied psychology, and economics. It is questionable, though whether a student who wishes to prepare for a quick ascension in any one of America's bureaucracies should have his studies so confined...