Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...universities became prime areas of concern for the military, and in mid-January two separate incidents heightened their fears. In Barcelona, students tried to hurl the university's rector from his office window...
...functions to regional or national offices. Other decisions taken were to send Blake on a peace mission to the Middle East and to hold meetings later this year on how the church can do more to fight racism, poverty and disease around the world. To Blake, such enlightened concern seems ample evidence of the organized church's contemporary relevance. Despite currents of anti-institutionalism sweeping the globe, he finds more people than ever before turning to the comfort of the church. "Religion," he says, "is not a problem but an answer...
Under the banner of mutual loyalty and concern, Laing says, men become nonthinking tools of the group. All those who belong to it are considered We, and merit its protection and privileges; those who stand outside the chosen circle are labeled Them and deemed the enemy-"the Reds, the Whites, the Blacks, the Jews." At its extreme, Laing warns apocalyptically, the "demonic group mysticism" of We-Them can evolve into a "brotherhood unto death," as in Nazi Germany. "Induce people all to want the same thing, hate the same thing, feel the same threat, then their behavior is already captive...
...first presidential press con ference last week, Richard Nixon placed the nation's economic problems on his list of matters that "require urgent attention." Promising "some fine tuning of our fiscal and monetary affairs to control inflation," the President expressed considerable concern over the rate at which prices are rising. "We believe it is possible to control inflation without in creasing unemployment in any substantial way," said Nixon. But he warned...
Hollander's chief concern these days is to get the hip audience out of the rock palaces and into the concert halls -at least long enough to hear him play...