Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heart of Europe. This week he takes his case to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, then goes to Paris for a meeting with the man whose non in 1963 blocked the first British attempt. Next month Wilson will visit the other Common Market capitals. Says he: "What we seek is to make a practical reality of a vision-a vision of a Europe which, strong and united, will be able to play an effective part in the world...
...should seek to expand the categories of exemption until they include everyone. We adovcate a broadening of the grounds for conscientious objection, the extension of alternate service, and the exemption of young workers in apprenticeship programs, as means of diminishing available draft material and expanding the base of the anti-draft movement. We must recognize elitist procedures, however, in the selection of Peace Corps and Vista trainees, and exclusionary practices in apprenticeship recruitment as we recognize class discrimination involved in the 2-S deferment. Real alternative service should include "community people," working in their own neighborhoods, without being able...
...doped by religion. Money is the thing most thought of by American students because it is the key to enjoyment. As a means of making money, "knocking other people down to step into their shoes" has been fostered since their childhood as a kind of philosophy of life. To seek personal advancement, they may, with a dagger, pierce the back of the person who "obstructs" them, be that person one of their best friends! In Chicago there was the conspiracy of two university students to kill a baby. Their motive was very simple: to do a shocking thing like that...
...passed the limits the building was intended to serve; and their numbers continue to grow (the faculty group, for example, by 44 per cent, the students, including graduate students by 48 per cent during the last decade alone). The time is clearly upon us when we shall have to seek large additional sums both for capital needs and for increased operational expense if the Library is to continue as one of the nation's great resources for scholarship and the special glory of this University...
...days swing onward, galumph-galumph, students leap from their carrels out into the snowless Yard ("I am not a prodigious leaper, I am a bird"). Lights burn late in House rooms (Look at it this way, Silas, Louis Quinze is to the Pompadour as you are to..."). Some seek recourse to the warm reassurance of love not dependent on academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhilaration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape this...