Word: discontentment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The commission members "reject the view that ascribes the April and May disturbances to a conspiracy of student revolutionaries." The report said that "the grievances of the rebels were felt by...probably a majority of the students." This support, it said, was felt even before the violent confrontations with the...
The Commission said it was "impressed" by three basic causes of this discontent:
It seems hard to believe that you said what they said you said. Remarks to the effect that student disruption at Harvard is the work of a "very very tiny group of people, including two or three sons of active Communists"... who had been "carefully indoctrinated before coming to Harvard...
Whoever wishes to understand students discontent would be much better advised to look into conditions at Harvard (your own responsibility), and conditions in this country as a whole, rather than the heritage of any particular group of students.
How this impression of the people is gained can't be easily explaned. Occasional admissions of discontent him at a more deep-seated malaise, but the most obvious manifestation of this search for escape is the fervor with which the Israelis desire peace. Their understandable eagerness to be free from...