Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty of Law held a special meeting last night--with invited students present for the first time in memory--to consider their response to the University Hall incident. After five hours of debate, the faculty approved a resolution which avoided directly condemning SDS while pledging opposition to efforts to "disrupt the orderly processes" of the University...
Until recently, racial turmoil has generally been confined to the streets and campuses. However, it takes only a handful of impassioned workers to disrupt an industrial plant. On Detroit's auto production lines, where violence and walkouts were everyday occurrences in the old days of union organization, a determined band of black radicals has posed a new threat. They have overturned production schedules with picket lines and some assaults on foremen. Victims include more moderate Negroes, who nevertheless do not openly condemn the militants. Both union and management leaders are concerned that the black protest movement will grow...
...even serious illness could disrupt the tranquillity of his first term, however. Late in the summer of 1955, the President, fishing and golfing in Colorado, suffered the first of his heart attacks but recovered quickly. Less than a year later, in June 1956, he was stricken again, this time with ileitis, which required major surgery. To his credit, Nixon, then Vice President, responded with tact and humility in a situation that might have stopped other men. After two such illnesses, it seemed impossible that Ike would run for reelection. But he did. "I want to finish what I have started...
...desire is not to disrupt the Law School, and professors who suggest that reform efforts by first-year students are destructive are displaying a distressing unwillingness to deal with serious issues on their merits...
...professors are natural enemies, instead of being mutually dedicated collaborators. It is no mere cliché that the President voices at Commencement, when he tells the seniors that they are being admitted "to the fellowship of educated men." Civilization itself depends upon this basic fellowship. Any attempt to disrupt it is not merely immature and irresponsible; it is totally uncivilized. Harry Levin Chairman Department of Comparative Literature