Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More Police!" Elsewhere, the police were less carefully supervised-and less considerate of the rebels. Professors and students who had linked arms to keep police and demonstrators apart were charged by wedges of plainclothesmen. Uniformed officers plunged into the breach to smash open the doors, while others broke in through underground tunnels. At Fayerweather Hall, where protesters had preplanned every act by majority vote, students who intended to submit cleanly to arrest lined up at the door; those who preferred to be dragged out sat on an upper floor; those who decided to resist linked arms on another floor...
...Prague, new Czechoslovak Party Boss Alexander Dubček scolded the So viet Ambassador for continuing to visit and consult with the man who was recently deposed from power, Antonin Novotný. Calling Stepan Chervonenko into his office, Dubček expressed "surprise and indignation" at this breach of party etiquette...
Genteel Banter. M.I.T. Humanities Professor Louis Kampf contends that many English teachers now recoil from stressing literature's illumination of life. They fear that voicing strong opinions is not only "a bad breach of manners," but might jeopardize their careers; thus confine themselves to "genteel banter." Historian Staughton Lynd, who has carried his beliefs into angry dissent from the Viet Nam war, criticizes historians who limit themselves to defining and analyzing forces in society. He asks acidly: "Should we be content with measuring the dimension of our prison instead of chipping, however inadequately, against the bars...
...ironic to note the passion with which Massachusetts authorities have prevented the film from being seen and the fervor of their prosecution of the producer and director for "violating the rights of patients" and for "breach of contract." This apparent concern for the "rights" of patients seems hardly compatible with the stark reality of Bridgewater State Hospital...
...threat seemed limited, consider ing that the N.D.P. has only 28,000 members out of Germany's 60 million people and that the Western Allies have little love for the party. Still, it was a breach that could be widened-and who could tell how broad East Germany's definition of a neo-Nazi could grow? The East Germans apparently have the N.D.P. list of members in Berlin and West Germany and insist that they will not let them pass border checkpoints. The U.S., France and Britain immediately declared that, under Allied agreements, everyone has the right...