Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unfortunately, the evidence so far is that while activist students have fully absorbed their parents' social concern, they have not inherited their tactical moderation. In the long run, the result could be very disillusioning for the parents...
...fined $100 apiece and sentenced to 30 days in jail. It was the harshest mass punishment of student protesters so far. It was also a proud experience for the demonstrators, who willingly paid the price for what they considered an antiwar stand. Dartmouth itself emerged with equal integrity. "My concern," says President Dickey, "is that youth's perennial commitment to a better human future should not today be betrayed by the most ancient aberration of hard-pressed humanity-the notion that anything goes in having your...
...views on what he regards as the two principal scourges of the century ?Communism and Freudianism?are staunch. Nabokov sees both as dreadful infringements upon creative freedom. "The social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me," he says. "My desires are modest. Portraits of the head of government should not exceed a postage stamp in size. No torture and no executions. No music, except coming through earphones or played in theaters...
...know what a novel is? There are no novels, there are no writers, only individual books." To the suggestion that he is a sensual writer, he asks, "Isn't writing sensual? Isn't it about feeling? The spirit and the body are one. My concern is to capture everything-the pictures, the scene, the detail-exactly...
Richard Wellington McLaren likes to tell a story that says a great deal about his main concern as Nixon's chief trustbuster. There was an executive whose firm had been taken over by a con glomerate. Wrote the executive to a friend: "You ask me what it's like to work for a conglomerate? Well, it's just like being a mushroom. First, they keep you in the dark for months. Then they throw dung all over you. Then they...