Word: assaultive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ARMIES OF THE NIGHT, by Norman Mailer. With unabashed language and unblushing candor, the author delineates his own mock-heroic role during last fall's peace assault on the Pentagon...
...into a wall. Police reinforcements soon overcame Brown's defense. After taking a look at his blood-spattered apartment and German Model Eva Marie Bohn-Chin, 22, lying semiconscious below his balcony, they arrested the former Cleveland star on charges of felony battery against a peace officer and assault with intent to commit murder. The prosecutor later dropped the assault charge when Eva refused to name Jimmy as the assailant...
...Organs. Even spokesmen for institutions troubled by the student assault conceded that some goals of the protesters were valid. Speaking at the University of Pennsylvania, CBS Chairman William S. Paley, a Columbia University trustee, admitted that he "questions the soundness today of the old theory of trustees as a small, self-perpetuating group of interested laymen, many chosen for life, into whose custody the full character and conduct of the university are reposed." At his university's commencement, Columbia Historian Richard Hofstadter heartily agreed that "powers need to be reallocated, new organs of decisions and communication need...
...repress." Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. said at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York that "on balance, the world stands to gain from student protest," but he took issue with the New Left creed, which has inspired much of the campus disorder. "It represents an assault on rationality in politics, with its dismissal of free discussion and its conviction that violence will mystically generate policy and program. If men or mechanisms were infallible, there would be no need for persuasion; but because they are not, the discipline of consent is indispensable to civilized society...
...instead on a patrolman's pickup truck that was, conveniently, rigged as a camper. A judge was recruited to preside at an unannounced 7:30 a.m. session, an hour before the court usually convenes. With Public Defender Richard Buckley representing him, the prisoner was charged with six counts of assault with intent to kill...