Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bureaucrats have labeled SALT (for Strategic Arms Limitation Talks). No one has ever accused the new President of underestimating the Communists; he would take a tough, skeptical line in any domestic debate about the proceedings. And for the first time in many years, both the U.S. and Russia seem to be in phase regarding their staggeringly costly strategic commitments and conflicting domestic aspirations. This, far more than rhetorical gamesmanship by either side, could be the compelling factor leading to realistic bargaining...
...Negro would seem to have a great deal in common?in some ways more than America's other minorities. They share a tragic past, part of which is a history of persecution at the hands of a white Christian majority. As the traditional outsider, the Jew can feel a special sympathy for other outsiders. His skin is white, and if he wishes he can become assimilated as no black man can. But the Jew, too, has at times known a sense of separateness and racial difference that could be as marked as a dark skin. Thus, theoretically, the black...
...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...
...committee's second non-educational proposal--augmenting the black social environment with a center like Hillel House--may initially seem ridiculous to whites who have become jaded to Hillel House or the Newman Center. But the committee presents a convincing case for the creation of a separate black cultural center. Harvard's sanguine policy of integrating black students into the white environment--like integrating Nebraskans into the Eastern environment--may often be counter-productive...
...Mumford, the city seems a place where a nineteenth century man--rural, self-sufficient, intellectual--can reach some sort of compromise with modernity. Many young people, however, seem to see positive values in the chaos and closeness of city--a chance to meet other people, and share an almost communal experience...