Word: disquieting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life. Ethically he is a relativist, an existentialist who prefers Tillich to St. Thomas, who reads Camus rather than Marx. His intellectual style is "anti-ideological, pragmatic and empirical," much in the mainstream of American tradition. But he does have tensions, a sense of uneasiness, a vague feeling of disquiet, and they are rooted in his strivings to reconcile two separate parts of his existence, "his public and his private self...
Weaver has no doubts about which of these comes first. He contends that "teaching is a university's prime reason for being" and that "what really matters in higher education is individual young people and their individual minds." A teacher's aim, he argues, is "to produce disquiet, make students question dogma. Good education doesn't produce stability. It should produce ferment." Under Weaver, the lowly undergrad is not likely to be forgotten, and the ferment is already going...
...Mexico Democrat Clinton Anderson: "The Senate's current sentiment is not so much disquiet as uncertainty. We all want to support the President, and we're going to support the President, but we don't see much headway. Where does it end? We don't know. That's disturbing and somewhat distressing...
...Dominican crisis, as in the Cuban fiasco, the deepest source of disquiet is the widespread assumption-at home and abroad-that the U.S. intervention marks a return to "gunboat diplomacy." Many persistent critics, particularly in academic circles, further argue that the Administration acted, in fact "overreacted," without provocation; that the rebels in Santo Domingo represent a legitimate democratic revolution. "On the evidence presented so far," wrote Notre Dame History Professor Samuel Shapiro in the Nation, "the Dominican revolution is no more Communist-controlled than the C.I.O. or the civil rights movement." Poet Archibald MacLeish attributed the U.S. response...
...Supreme Court. Although you quite properly quote Paul Freund, Frankfurter's disciple and successor at Harvard, as somewhat critical of the Court's new activist trend, you also quote to the same effect an unnamed Yale professor, thus giving the impression that Yale shares Harvard's disquiet. But the fact is that the man you quote is, like Freund, Harvard-and-Frankfurter trained and oriented...