Word: dismissing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dismiss Chairman Brown's objections as irrelevant even though you considered the same arguments as valid in the ROTC case. It seems, in your mind, that Roger Brown opposed the course "on political grounds." You conclude this from the alleged fact that opponents of Soc Rel 148-9 failed to talk with a "considerable number of students taking the course." Yet, again, in the ROTC cast you failed to mention that there was no investigation of contents of ROTC courses, distribution an rationality of marks, or effectiveness of University control...
...Investigations: Catch-68" [Feb. 7]: while loftily castigating the Navy's alleged lack of vision, you barely mention, and then hastily dismiss the real root cause of these latter-day military tragedies-the "flash query syndrome...
Extremely severe judgments in military courts are common. It is a foregone conclusion that those who have been charged will appeal. The first step of the complicated but fairly liberal review procedure is the staff judge advocate, who can approve the sentence, reduce, or dismiss it. From there it goes to Washington. All this takes time, of course, which the accused must spend in prison, since there is no provision for bail in military law. However, despite the rigmarole of court-martial, there is little likelihood that any of the convicted "mutineers" will spend anything like 15 years in jail...
Dartmouth's Committee on Standing and Conduct, in dismissing last week the cases of two students whom campus policemen found violating parietals, stated that it would also dismiss all future violations of parietal regulations which involved only the presence of a girl in a room after hours...
...next logical step: to run the economy by themselves as free and equal partners." The reason: they were unprepared for the responsibility, "overwhelmed by the unexpected vistas that had suddenly opened up before them." Beyond that, the Cohn-Bendits blame the established left: the Communist Party, which they scornfully dismiss as "a mere appendage of the Soviet bureaucracy," and the left-wing Confédération Générale du Travail. Both, they charge, failed to exploit existing power vacuums. "The party of order and political wisdom," as Communist Boss Waldeck Rochet described his organization, opted...