Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read with dismay that the new "supercouncil" that may replace the HUC might be supported by official allocations. It strikes me that this will probably eventually mean less rather than more responsiveness to student needs. Student councils have a way of starting out with great hopes, and vanishing to the joy of current undergraduates. I have seen it happen several times in the past decade at Harvard, and there is no particular reason that the supercouncil should be expected to have a better fate. However, if it is supported financially independently of its constituents' immediate feelings, it could prove...
...promises to "kill the pigs." If full employment is not available. Cox explained, "then we must take the means of production and put them in the hands of the people." By "we," Cox did not mean the moneyed liberals in his audience. One of the ladies gasped her dismay that her head might be among the first to roll when the revolution came. "Oh, no," the wife of another Panther reassured her. "You sound as if you're afraid. There's no reason for that...
...Dismay over the decaying state of the environment is fast replacing peace as the gut issue among the nation's young. Underground newspapers that once denounced the Viet Nam War are now aiming their vitriol at the auto. Students are demonstrating to ban everything from pesticides to offshore oil wells. Well versed by now in the techniques of protest, they are even turning to the courts for help. A group of Washington law students recently brought legal action to force the capital's transit authority to muzzle the fumes from its diesel buses...
...punks! Our institutions are tremendously vulnerable. What are we afraid of? Of the Government? Of the police? Of Congress? No, for God's sake, we're afraid of the individual, of the beast masquerading as man." Some less volcanic thinkers?among them many liberals and academics?have also expressed dismay. All institutions are fallible, says Columbia University's Jacques Barzun, and unending criticism can bring down the entire structure of society...