Word: dissentions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement which the meeting adopted-drafted by Eugene H. Avrett, lecturer on Astronomy-criticized the Resolution for failing to define the responsibilities of the administration in regard to student dissent and community relations...
...frivolous issue. It is the result not merely of prosperity but of spiritual emptiness. Nothing may be more boring perhaps than the absence of God, and much of the discontent among youth was basically religious, though they may not have recognized it as such. As Irving Howe, editor of Dissent, recently noted: "There is a built-in frustration in the activity of the radicals-and this may be one of the reasons for their rage, namely, that what they really want is transcendence, or a mystical experience, which is not available through either reform or revolutionary politics...
statement charged Harvard with attempting to suppress all dissent by "taking a mechanical and legalistic" stand on a demonstration that did no damage and did not "seriously disrupt" University functions...
...more and more campuses across the nation, student radicals have found a powerful new voice for protest: they have gained control of established college newspapers and turned them into journals of dissent...
...nearly two decades, the President has in fact had at his disposal an ugly antidote to dissent-detention camps. The Internal Security Act of 1950 enables the President to declare an "internal security emergency" and authorize the Attorney General to round up and detain persons believed to be engaged in acts of espionage or sabotage. In 1952, reacting to enormous pressure from the right, Attorney General J. Howard McGrath ordered six detention camps made ready. The camps have never been used as envisioned under the act,* but their very authorization has created among blacks and militant radicals in recent months...