Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the deck of the little 350-ton Arbella plowing westward through the angry Atlantic to the Massachusetts coast in 1630, John Winthrop preached a sermon that struck the theme of what America in all its future years would seek to be. "Wee shall be," Winthrop prophesied, "as a Citty upon a Hill, the Eies of all people are uppon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his present help from us, wee shall be made a story and a byword through the world...
...need there be. Today's individual in search of influence could do worse than seek what Philosopher Josiah Royce, more than half a century ago, called the "Great Community." In the days before World War I, Royce feared the consequences of a mindless technology. The answer, he declared, was not the destruction of machines, but the expansion of man. Man, he said, should look upon himself as part of a great community and develop a hierarchy of loyalties extending from his family, to his own community, to the great community of all mankind. Cynics might look upon this...
...they considered unjust. They may have felt at the Chicago Convention that their efforts had come to naught, and they may be disillusioned with McCarthy's recent behavior; the fact is that their efforts played a considerable part in persuading Lyndon Johnson to withdraw from the election and seek peace in Viet Nam. The episode showed, among other things, that the most effective protest is not mindless violence and the shock tactics of obscenity, but disciplined, organized effort...
Americans might seek, for example, to decentralize their governing institutions on all levels and bring government closer to the people. As a politician's phrase, this has lost all meaning, but it could become at least a partial reality. Decentralization might turn into just another slogan, and the idea carries obvious dangers. But given the right balance between necessary central administration and local authority, decentralization could do a great deal to enhance the individual's feeling of importance...
COEDUCATION is a major concern of students at Harvard and Radcliffe. The nature, types, and degree of coeducation at a university have profound effects upon students' lives at that university. This report will seek...