Word: confronted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University cannot ignore it now. Perhaps the end of support for certain programs is less than tragic. Certainly, forcing Harvard to confront the realities of its connection with Washington is a good thing. But the sudden sharpness with which the cuts were performed is inexcusable. We take strong exception to the bureaucratic indifference with which the executive branch adopted the meat-axe approach in curtailing the areas of academic work that had previously been Federally supported...
...experience of the 1960s and early 1970s and a reading of U.S. history has persuaded us that the problems we confront cannot be solved within the framework of the capitalist society. (The argument is spelled out in some detail in R. Edwards, M. Reich, and T. Weisskopf, The Capitalist System, a book that grew out of our experience teaching...
...exist only by serving others as a maternal breast; Maria's surface emotion hides her coldness and fear of true emotional commitment; Karin's analysis is harshly correct, but she lacks faith even in her own analysis and is therefore defeated by its truth. Each has failed to confront reality, which is composed not only of intellect, emotion and belief, but of transcendent faith which enunciates life's governing principle and thereby makes life bearable...
...Faculty does not seem to want to confront the problem of discipline in the Harvard community. It has already twice postponed discussion on the fate of the often-criticized Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, and is only belatedly taking up the matter today...
AMERICANS SHOULD confront their own past and realize how violence has removed obstructions to social change. Armed struggle freed America from colonial servility, liberated the slaves and mid-wifed the birth of the labor movement. Although violence was not exclusively seen as a tactic by which to achieve progres, it certainly played a progressive role in our past. (The Vietnamese understand our history: their 1945 announcement that they would no longer accept colonial status is patterned after the American Declaration of Independence...