Word: acte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dropouts desire to take risks. The first was the affluence of American society: "Young people brought up in a world where everything has come easily to them begin to long for challenge and they cast about for risks to take . . . ." The other came right from Freud: hippies act like "infants and children [who] demand instant gratification . . . demanding from drugs an instant and constant happiness." They are immature people, for "if maturity comes, it brings with it the capacity to tolerate some present pain in order to achieve a greater pleasure at some later time...
...strange logic-though often used-which holds that university involvement with ROTC and government research is in keeping with a neutral role. but that refusal to be linked with these things is a highly political act aimed at "undermining the Armed Forces...
Blaine ended his speech with a pitch for "realizing the tremendous value inherent in the idealism of today's young . . . youth serves an important function when it startles us out of complacency and stirs us . . . to act toward a healthy change...
Maybe that's why we went to Washington, all of us. When you come right down to it, it is much more important to act than to achieve. An achievement is just an excuse to act; the act itself is what keeps you alive. We acted in Washington. Those who stayed home might as well be dead...
...almost blew it at the Justice Department-the Mobe, not the militants. The militants had made certain promises and kept them. The Mobe should not have asked more. In the face of the overriding futility of any kind of protest in this country today it is important that everyone act, it is not important how they act...