Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...killed in the Easter riots, at least one and presumably both were killed by stones. Der Spiegel, until that point very favorable to the radical students, wrote: "Both these deaths must be charged to the SDS." (I am aware that last spring's Easter riots were precipitated by the brutal attack on Rudi Dutschke, but the death of two innocent people hardly aided Dutschke's cause.) Of course German policemen have been brutal, but even the most hot-eyed disciples of Herr Herbert Marcuse can hardly believe that they throw stones. One further "accomplishment" out of many. From...
Finally, the Curle-Whitten report pointed out that the Ed School seriously neglected the teaching of pedagogy, a particular handicap for Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) students who each year graduate from Longfellow Hall into brutal urban classrooms...
...Brutal Showdown. Recently, dissenters in Russia have sounded the alarm that a return to mass terror is at hand. So far, however, the leaders have confined themselves to selective terror in an attempt to silence the most outspoken writers and intellectuals and to curb their influence on public opinion. Still, the regime finds itself in an impossible dilemma. Without a return to mass police terror, new voices will be raised in dissent as soon as others are stilled. But the regime knows too that the cost of restoring Stalin's terror would be incalculably high. It would reverse the effect...
...peace you have taught us to value but violence pervades our national life. The few voices that have a ring of sanity and humanity are ruthlessly silenced. Meanwhile, you have undertaken, and even asked us to wage for you a brutal and obscene war, a war that outrages our moral sensibilities and our political intelligence...
...guage. Yet it said perhaps more than the mayor intended. Despite a 77-page official "white paper" and a blanket endorsement of his police by Daley him self, city authorities had yet to convince thousands who were there that the Chicago cops had been anything less than brutal to demonstrators, news men and almost anyone else who got in their way during the four days of the Democratic Convention...