Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What caused all the concern this year was the simple fact that drug use was on the rise among freshmen, and significantly. It was increasing among upperclassmen too, but since the Houses are spread all over, the degree of use was difficult to estimate...
...this concern with the "power of power" resulted from the frustrations of political ineffectiveness. Much of it was inspired by a much more personal feeling among individuals that they were losing control over their own lives, that somehow decisions about the quality of life now belonged to huge inhuman bureaucracies over which they had no influence. The "bigness" of modern organizations led students to be far more concerned with preserving their autonomy, finding ways of living that would leave them as much control as possible and allow them to relate "meaningfully" to other human beings. Though few supported the conservatives...
...concern about autonomy and the quality of life permeated almost every aspect of college activity. It applied to political activity but, even more importantly, to career choices, decisions about graduate school, the draft and off-campus living. It was associated, in general, with an aversion to manipulation, a distaste for shows of force or power over other men and women. One of the things which bothered them most about the country's behavior in Vietnam, for example, was the high-handed imposition of American values and way of life on another people...
...those who had been kicked out of it, the men and women who had been denied a place in that great race up the middle odalss ladder and who had learned to get along without it. It was less a rejection of the old values and goals than a concern for searching out new alternatives, less a need to avoid being middle class (which most of them could not do anyway) than for remaining receptive to adventures and commitments that would make middle class life more satisfying...
...concern for the present, then, did not focus so much on consumption as it did on creative or intellectually satisfying experience--again, individual autonomy and the quality of life. As the activists made the University a force for change in society, a growing number of students duplicated the life-styles of creative adults while still at college. In addition to studying and taking exams, they played newspapermen (with all the hard-bitten, aggressive story-mongering of real journalism), or actors (all the back-biting, trauma and brilliance of the real stage), or writing (all the intense competition, as well...