Word: understood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...future form of Harvard's Afro-American Studies Committee with a sort clarification of our motivations and our goals. We make this presentation to you, the Harvard faculty, the only decision making group that has retained its credibility in this time of crisis. We wish to make it understood that we are presenting to you today the foremost of many interests we hold, and that satisfactory resolution of this question is but a step in the ongoing process of resolving all the issues we, and others, are raising...
While the votes were being tabulated Alan E. Heimert, Master of Eliot House, urged the crowd to listen to the demands of the black students. "There is a great deal more to be heard, a great deal more to be understood," he said. "The blacks have presented specific concerns that are extraordinary and that require an extraordinary response from the University...
...ruler of Taiwan on the one hand, and of mainland China on the other. Each insists that the other must be regarded as fraudulent. Thus, Taiwan will undoubtedly break relations with Ottawa if the Canadians recognize Peking. To make certain that Taiwan's hard line is still clearly understood everywhere, the congress last week concluded with a warning that the Kuomintang and the Taiwan government "resolutely oppose any moves that lead to appeasing the Maoist regime...
...Contacted early this morning by the CRIMSON, Calkins would not say whether the Bruner resolution on ROTC currently before the Faculty represented "a position of political protest against the war." He said that the original Bruner resolution was badly designed in some sections, and that he understood that it was being redrafted. "I wouldn't want to telegraph what the Corporation's action on the Bruner resolution would be," Calkins said...
...your generation "wants to be understood." Well, so does mine. How much have you tried to understand others? You pillory us for in-justices not of our making, frictions not of our choice, dilemmas that history (or our forebears or the sheer intractability of events) presented to us. You say we "failed" because you face so many awful problems. Will you then accept blame for all the problems that exits (and they will) when you are 20 years older? And how do you know that all problems are soluble? Or soluble swiftly? Or soluble peacefully? Or soluble, given the never...