Word: disruptions
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...could argue for these as further ways to disrupt the audience's confidence in the sentimental nature of events. They are just more strangenesses in a loosely structured film. But Polonsky's descents to cliche and sentiment finally interfere with our perception of the event in itself, instead of helping us see it in new lights. It's better to avoid overt sentiment, and show a totally different scheme of personal relations, than to use it in hopes of shaking the audience loose from its sentimental outlook. The audience for such cold, quirky films must be nearly as large...
...themselves under considerable pressure from their fellow students to exercise that option and open the hearings to a gallery Furthermore, the Committee of Fifteen last April and May was the object of a serious effort, in which threats of force were made, by a large number of students to disrupt the hearings then in progress. We took seriously those threats then and we take seriously the possibility of disruption today. We hope we are wrong on the present prospects, but in the highly-charged atmosphere surrounding these events we believe it unwise to offer an opportunity for renewed efforts...
...disgrace for a handful of radicals to disrupt the opportunities of others to get an education in our colleges today," said South Carolina's Strom Thurmond. Whereupon his student audience at Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University proceeded to disrupt the Senator's speech by pelting him with marshmallows. "Don't be frightened, Senator!" shouted one heckler. "They're not bombs...
...Supreme Court, the government yesterday argued against conscientious objection against a specific war. Solicitor Gen. Erwin N. Griswold said, "The Constitution does not set up freedom of conscience. It does not equate conscience with religion." Selective conscientious ob-jection. Griswold argued, would disrupt American society...
...University Hall by the Organization for Black Unity (OBU) does not call for similar punishment. The Committee on Rights and Responsibilities should recognize the occupation for what is was-a bargaining tactic undertaken by a group engaged in important, and frequently frustrating, negotiations with the University. While they did disrupt the normal functioning of the University, members of OBU used restraint in the occupation: they neither physically assaulted nor harassed other members of the University. In sum, the OBU occupation did not present a grave threat to the University's essential academic activities...