Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much-discussed poll taken in the Soviet Union in 1961 by the official newspaper of the youth organization, Komsomolskaya Pravda, 96.7 percent of those returning questionnaires indicated that they had a personal goal in life. Only 14.9 percent, however, said that they wished to become "real communists." Most were concerned with their own personal development--with becoming a specialist, "with achieving something outstanding," and the like. Concern for the development of the individual personality, and with freedom of thought so as to find the "truth" showed up quite clearly in this survey...
...increasing number of what remains so far sporadic incidents demonstrates the increasing frustration of many students, and continues to be a source of embarrassment and concern to the communist parties. Students in Czechoslovakia have continued to meet on May Day, despite the banning ever since 1956 of the traditional student's carnival. These meetings have been the occasion for demonstrations against food shortages, the declining standard of living, and, despite a growing liberalization, the restraints placed on intellectual life...
ASPECTRE is haunting America--the spectre of students. For the first time in the history of the United States, university students have become a source of interest for all the nation; a source of concern for much of the nation; and a source of fear for some of the nation. This is a phenomenon unique to the decade...
...this recent development of American students at the center, rather than on the periphery, of social issues that has aroused the interest, the concern and the fear. There is a feeling in the air that a new force may have entered into social history; that youth may play a more effective political role for good or for ill than ever before...
...have seen some explosive issues torment the United States--particularly the Civil Rights issue internally and the Vietnam war externally. Internal justive and external peace are both inherently compelling issues for idealistic youth. Coming together they have abetted each other. Beyond these two issues lie others of great concern--control of the bomb, adjustment to the computer, accommodation to the mass corporation and government agency, and much else...