Word: dissentions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dissent and Power...
...indulgent of willful minority actions, which are still destructive even if idealistically provoked by a dreadful war. At this late date, one need not be an alarmist to wonder how long the free university in this country can survive the extra ordinary conjuncture of such extremes of tolerance and dissent...
...stranger to protest movements, is sympathetic to some of the rebels' views. "Our major educational institutions," he said last week, "have not delivered the services to humanity that could be reasonably expected of them." Yet Clark, like Harvard President Nathan Pusey, argued that the extreme forms of dissent now in vogue "have as their goal destruction of institutions." Said he: "All forms of tyranny are introduced under the guise of moral indignation and are justified by some higher moral ends...
...emphasis on the dozens of innocent people who are seriously inconvenienced by the practice, the court made it clear that it hoped the police would find another way of sifting out suspects. Whether the police will do so, however, is uncertain. As Justice Potter Stewart pointed out in dissent, even if a suspect's prints were obtained improperly, the police might be able to rearrest him properly later and take his fingerprints then. That being so, it may be some time before police are willing to abandon as handy a device as the dragnet...
Most of these arguments-from-practicality could easily be mistaken for old-style conservatism. In April, most of them were. The one application of Calkins' theory that came as a surprise to most students was his "elegant dissent" scheme...