Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bunting's concern for student involvement in decision-making led her to reorganize the student government association at Radcliffe, making it a "community wide" organization which includes administrators and students alike as voting members. On numerous occasions, she has chided students who have cynically regarded her plans as fait accompli. At a Radcliffe Government Association meeting, she is apt to repeat, "I've come here because I want to hear what you think. Do you have any ideas? What shall we change...
...this day, Mrs. Bunting thinks that the hunger strikers were disgruntled that they lost in the lottery. They, however, pointed to the girls in their number who had won places and reminded her that their concern with apartment living antedated the lottery. The strikers are probably correct in defending their long-range interest in the housing issue, but Mrs. Bunting is also justified in thinking that there is a good deal of self-interest involved. "The basic problem between us is not that I didn't understand what you wanted, but that you didn't get your...
...take things slowly and wait for financial support," she said several weeks ago. "I really can't think of myself as an ogre. We all want the same things." The 23 girls, before they went on strike, argued that economics ought not to be Mrs. Bunting's first concern. "It's important enough for us to live in our own apartments for the college to run a deficit," their spokesman insisted...
President Johnson, in his famous speech at Johns Hopkins, told us that our concern with China underlies our war in Vietnam, that "Over the war, and all Asia, is ... the deepening shadow of Communist China. The rulers of Hanoi are urged on by Peking....The contest in Vietnam is part of a wider pattern of aggressive purpose." The Administration constantly assures us that victory in Vietnam is needed to stop aggression, to stop the spread of Chinese power. How aggressive is China...
Perhaps the most fundamental motif of China's foreign policy has been a concern to secure and defend her borders. When able to attain this end by peaceful and diplomatic means, as in the case of border treaties with Burma and Pakistan, China has done so. But when foreign armies crossed the 38th parallel in Korea and headed for China's Yalu border, Peking ordered its army to stop that threat. And when India refused to allow give-and-take negotiations about a disputed border, the Chinese army took what Peking considered to be her share of the disputed territory...