Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That subject had been the conscientious concern of several young, Americans during the '30's and '40's. They steeped themselves in China's history and culture. In the process, they could not avoid being affected by the constant bloodletting and corruption on the Nationalist side, and the bright hope of the young frank communists. People came back from the communist stronghold at Yenan, Fairbank remembers, "incandescent" with praise for the ideas and humanity of Mao and his young friends. They returned to America burdened with both the memory of frustration and a message of hope about the Communists...
...many, but an important one seems to have been the war in Vietnam. The political Left that had been associated with and indeed was part of the movement now began turning on the President and all his works. Thus, Ramparts published an editorial written by Marcus Raskin, evincing great concern that I seemed to think more Negroes should be in the armed forces (I do); and indicting me further as a lackey of the "social welfare monopolicy--with its cop and spying attributes" that now proposed to force decent proletarian Negroes to live like the white bourgeoisie and to "torture...
...expressed concern that there are two million more women than men in this country, but almost all politicians...
...last few years, the Center has organized a number of regular research seminars which are also open to scholars from Harvard, M.I.T., Brandeis, and Boston University. What these seminars and the research projects both show is a strong concern for problems of underdeveloped countries--an emphasis that has not always been of first importance at the Center. "This trend has not been deliberate," says Schelling, explaining that three of the four senior Faculty members at the Center's beginning, Kissinger, Bowie, and himself, concentrated on Atlantic problems, diplomacy, and Eastern Europe. Only Mason studied underdeveloped countries...
Unlike his grim-faced contemporaries, Lloyd is not at odds with the square world. Communication is his prime concern, and he achieves it by drawing freely on a wide variety of styles-from calypso to hootchy-kootchy, from Bartok to Indian ragas. When he tries to describe what he is doing, though, his talk tends to get lost in shifting rhythms. "Music is like breathing," he says. "When one is and when one breathes and says to the world, T'm here,' there's something quite cosmic about it. We're all here. All in harmony...