Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator Edmund Muskie, Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, Eldridge Cleaver and-of all people-Richard Nixon. Apparently convinced that he is sincerely trying to end the war and reform the draft, two out of three freshmen expressed respect for the President. But given the capacity of small student minorities to disrupt campuses and bedevil presidents, that vote of confidence in Nixon is unlikely to cause euphoria in the White House...
...world, too well-off, in fact, to ever be the vanguard of a revolution as long as relative prosperity continues. But if the United States can no longer sustain the kind of control over world resources and labor that it has in the past and if internal tensions simultaneously disrupt the system, then it might be possible to radicalize the workers. Aside from being a longshot (but no longer than PL's strategy), the Weatherman proposal is the best argument yet for white radicals not to do anything...
...Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities which these committees are to enforce was adopted by the Faculty June 9. It provides for punishing students or Faculty who occupy buildings, disrupt classes, or use violence against other members of the University...
CURRENCY devaluations by major countries were once regarded as cataclysmic events likely to cause global shock waves that would disrupt trade, employment and international investment. Last week, when world money markets reopened after France's surprise 12½% devaluation of the franc, the repercussions proved to be notable for their mildness...
...year I had worked with a patient trying to bring him out and stimulate his interest in some direction. Often he'd gotten up and left at the first opportunity. It was easier to withdraw, to live in a fantasy world. Other people, other tings disrupt that self constituted equilibrium and bring to mind the memory of an inability to cope with the trials of the real world. The reclusive life of a mental hospital is a respite from the anguishing pace of "the outside," but as time passes, unless patients maintain some sort of contact with the outside...