Word: importance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...witness to the spectacle of the men of small imagination, limited in comprehension to diminishing areas of inquiry, lacking the capacity to note the import of their activity for the more pervasive aspects of the human enterprise, subservient to an establishment that does not hesitate to use them for the most inhumane and obnoxious ends. Men of technical reason, as skilled at killing as at helping, progressively unconcerned with the distinction, and unaware that value resides anywhere but in techniques itself. So, crippled reason pays obeisance to power and the faculty in man most fit to nurture life becomes...
...governors such Nelson Rockefeller, and both Presidents Kennedy and Johnson have been actively concerned with the quality of the public buildings by which--like it or not--posterity is likely to recall their administrations. But the subject is still far too little insisted upon by those who realize its import. If we are to save our cities, and restore to American public life the sense of shared experience, trust, and common purpose that seem to be draining out of it, the quality of public design has got to be made a public issue because it is a politcal fact...
...Super-import Peter Bogovich kicked both Crimson goals for the freshman soccer team's 2-0 victory over Andover yesterday at Harvard...
...platoon of Cabinet members sent up the Hill by President Johnson. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman pointed out that one acre of every four of U.S. farmland grows food for export, and exports provide work for one out of every eight U.S. farmers. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall argued that oil import quotas should be less rigid in order to give the Government flexibility in maintaining the national security. Rusk cited some U.S. annual exports-$369 million worth of computers, $188 million worth of farm tractors (or 20% of total output), $371 million worth of fruits and vegetables. "Which of these sectors...
Despite such pleas, some sort of import quota restrictions seem likely to go through the Congress. And if that happens, the result can only cause incalculable damage to the cause of world trade, upon which the U.S. itself increasingly depends...