Word: discrediting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are doubtless profound cultural reasons for such anger: the aggressive self-regard of the era now perhaps passing, the centrifugal individualism, the loss of authority, the sense of alienation from "the System," a precipitous disenchantment that tended to discredit all rules, including those of social behavior. It is possible that the price of a certain amount of personal liberty is excess and mess, all the frictions and bad smells generated by social change and people exercising their constitutional rights. Jefferson had an idea that democracy should be genteel, but it did not work out that way. And today, there...
...will conclude they are doing the right thing. If professors or administrators disagree with students, they should try to convince them they are wrong. And even if most graduates become doctors, lawyers and businessmen, their concern and their ideas are not invalid. The apostasy of the individual does not discredit the cause...