Word: brutalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COMMITTEE of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS) has come a long way since its inception as a "radical caucus" within the Association of Asian Scholars (AAS) annual convention a year ago in Philadelphia. At that time the caucus of 500 scholars in Asian Studies "came together in opposition to the brutal aggression of the United States in Vietnam and to the complicity nor silence of our profession with regard to that policy." Since, then, CCAS has grown into an organization of several hundred members with chapters at all major centers of Asian studies in the country. CCAS also...
...this one violation and is not a permanent body. But I am overwhelmed by the fact that no Radcliffe girls have protested. Has everyone forgotten Radcliffe's existence? Just because our deans choose to remain silent, bowing before their suitor, choosing not to become personally involved in the brutal beating of their students, is no reason why we, as students, can't express our concern and advantages however, small, of not being part of Harvard yet, but we seem so anxious to live in Adams House that we have already let Radcliffe bite the dust. Sally Monsour...
...recognition to the strength of moral convictions and courage of those students participating in the demonstration. They could into question the morality of the decision-making process of this Administration. The tactics employed by the Administration in ending the occupation were a clear indication of the brutal and insensible use of power upon which that morality is founded. In a WBZ-TV interview April 10, Mayor Sullivan of Cambridge stated, in response to a question as to what restraints the Administration put on police it called together, that the Administration did not place any restrictions on the police...
Even if the arrested students should eventually be acquitted, that will give Harvard no excuse to discipline them by its own processes. The demonstrators were subjected to police action, including the threat or actuality of brutal action, thrown in jail, and obligated at least to seek legal help. In short, Harvard placed them on the in-basket of the judicial process, under circumstances where the University's power to extricate students was both practically and logically compromised...
...years, the two men finally reveal themselves to each other. Pratt has always been a misfit-he says-though he does have the courage to admit his fears and weakness. Horn emerges as a dabbler in medieval studies and essentially a moderate leader, doomed to be destroyed by more brutal and extremist forces. These exchanged confidences, however, offer no comfort...