Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down almost from day to day. The revolutionaries search continuously for issues to win support from their nonmilitant colleagues in order to increase their own following and to achieve their basic purpose, which they acknowledge quite frankly is simply to extend "the movement." By this they mean to foster a revolution which they assume they are leading. They have been fairly successful in recent years in finding issues and so have gained not only tolerance but a great deal of active sympathy for themselves...
THERE ARE REAL troubles in society and in the human heart which foster disturbances on campuses, and we have a gigantic task to face up to them, if we are to move toward the eradication or amelioration of the manifold blemishes of our society in such a way as to recall the distressed and angry, young and old, to work patiently and seriously together, charitably, and reasonably and on a basis of knowledge, in a fresh effort to build a satisfying society that will stir and elicit loyalty...
...plea is that in the interest of our national well-being you retain faith in the vast majority of our young people and permit the institutions which exist to foster their education to get on with their very difficult task in ways which will seem to them appropriate, and which alone, I believe, can be counted on to be productive...
...would then be defending with too little, too late," said Dr. John S. Foster Jr., assistant defense secretary for research and development. He contended that the Soviet Union's new SS9 missiles, now under development, could destroy all but 50 of the 1000 U.s. Minutemen missiles in the 1970's if the missiles were left undefended...
Critical thought cannot flourish in a hierarchical academy whose organization faithfully mirrors the present economic organization of society. Grades can force people to study national income or genetics or Shakespeare, but they militate against the study of a new, humane society. And they foster the illusion that there are no alternatives to an economic system based on contrived, sterile incentives, and operated for the benefit of the few. By ridding ourselves of this academic system, we will be creating a model of an alternative system of work--a system in which people work because they want to, because the work...