Word: dismissals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ombudsmen" to carry student grievances to top administrators, The University of Chicago has appointed a student to such a post, gives him an office with a fireplace, plus a small budget and a full-time secretary. The Stony Brook campus of the State University of New York intends to dismiss classes for three days this month so that students and faculty can talk out the school's pains and aims...
During two months of orderly demonstrations in Zocalo, the central plaza opposite Diaz Ordaz's mansion, the students made four demands: that the government disband the granaderos, dismiss Mexico City's police chief, release all so-called political prisoners, and revoke an antisubversion clause in the penal code. The government promised to re-examine the law, but otherwise remained aloof. Mexico's press blamed the riots on "Communist agitators," but the demonstrations seemed more to reflect the influence of an activist New Left. Increasingly, the students threatened to "stop the Olympics," and directed their attacks against Diaz...
...words are those of the late Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Better, I think, than any others, they characterize the mood of our generation. The Class of 1968 emerges from its campuses at the head of a rising tide of youthful dissatisfaction. It is too easy to dismiss the obvious malaise of youth as nothing but a new manifestation of the age-old conflict between parents and children. More is at issue here, much more. This generation wants not simply to replace its parents in the positions of power and prominence in American society, but, more importantly, to change that...
...interested to note that during the present soul-searching, a number of other publications have reached the same conclusion. News week, for example, in a thoughtful article entitled "Is the Press Biased?" observes: "Newsmen should be willing to dismiss the illusion that there is such a thing as 'pure objectivity' in reporting." In support of which the magazine quotes Bill Moyers to the effect that "of all the myths of journalism, objectivity is the greatest." Just...
...political philosopher] cannot dismiss too lightly the reproach of hard-headed politicians, that political theory has nothing whatever to do with political practice. Political theory, he must maintain, tries to explain what the practical politician is doing. It is not abstract, remote, or impractical...