Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason for this success is that student radicals have finally learned how to play upon liberal sensibilities to get what they want. They understand that the predominant ethic at American universities is liberal and humanitarian. Instead of offending the academic community as they did in the past with raucous demonstrations and tyrannical statements, they have learned how to use liberalism to get what they want...
...settlement of 6000 Bantu men on contract labor, brought in from all around the country. Mothers complained to Dr. Salber that their daughters were being threatened, and malnutrition was a problem among the huge colony of men. Yet to complain to the government from a medical and humanitarian point of view inevitably led to a criticism of South African politics. Dr. Salber recalled, "There just wasn't very much you could do about health without getting involved in politics. It was very difficult to do this kind of work and live with yourself at the same time. Even...
Medicaid, the much heralded medical plan of New York State, falls far short of humanitarian medical practice, as Dr. Salber explained. A cumbersome registration program with a humiliating and involved inquiry into family finances may turn away many, and those that persist will often find the kind of impersonal attention that Dr. Salber did away with at the Eliot Center. Only when physicians take time to explain problems in laymen's language, only when the patient is voluntarily involved in deciding what the proper treatment is, and only when social as well as medical assistance is provided will patients willingly...
TheGlobe's opposition to the war is based on a sons-of-Lincoln idealism. U.S. involvement is not so much immoral in terms of universal humanitarian values as it is violation of traditional American values. Editorials are geared toward building a broad
...bill's sting by promising that no British citizen expelled from Kenya would be denied admission to Britain-though he would not actually write the promise into the law. Later the Home Office thoroughly muddled the situation by explaining that, even if there are a few "humanitarian" admissions, the quota system will stand. That left both critics and supporters of the law so hopelessly confused that the London Times declared: "It has been a wretched affair." Whatever the precise meaning of the law, Labor's handling of the episode left no doubt that it had been just that...