Word: existence
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concerned that problems exist, but we take hope from the fact that here, unlike some other cities, they do not seem insurmountable. Compared with universities in many of the largest cities, we find ourselves in an area with a relatively smaller stock of delapidated housing. The poor, black and white, are here in the tens of thousands, but not in the hundreds of thousands. Signs of vitality and change are evident in the centers of Boston and Cambridge, and people from all over the country and the world continue to come here and seek to live, not on the periphery...
Further and perhaps most important, deciding what to do cannot be done by Harvard, or some part of Harvard, acting unilaterally. In every area to which this committee has turned its attention, there are already programs underway, organizations formed, spokesmen selected, conflicts apparent. Just as 'the" university does not exist, so 'the" community does not exist. We impinge upon many communities and some of them--perhaps most--are deeply suspicious of Harvard's intentions and capacities. No master plan for community development can or should be devised by Harvard alone, because any action requires first to work out, carefully...
UCRA also aims to "foster similar groups where they do not exist, acquainting them with techniques of proved effectiveness." Pinsky said that the only Harvard professor to indicate that he wanted to organize a UCRA at Harvard was Handlin. Handlin could not be reached for comment...
...lets himself be corrupted away from his original innocence and natural virtue by organized society. On the whole, Romantic feeling has been a social outcast, preserved by poets and writers, celebrated unwittingly by ordinary men. The rational approach assumes that anything, including God, that cannot be proved to exist, does not exist. One essentially Romantic reply in religion was Kierkegaard's assertion that man must leap into faith, as into darkness, with no reassuring proof that God exists. Another response was modern Existentialism. In what it gloomily concedes is now a mechanistic world, it seeks to restore...
...amount of Government programs could do every thing that needs to be done; and no President, in four years or a hundred, could end all the evils and right all the wrongs that exist in the U.S. today. But a strong President, in touch with the needs of the country, can do much to relieve the anguish that now grips the American spirit. His leadership can bring new understanding between the races; his resolve, or lack of it, can set the tone that guides the public actions of his countrymen...