Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HAIR. Now that the hippie notion is fading away, a slickly packaged version of hippiedom has swung onto Broadway. The songs rock, the expletives explode and the energetic cast exuberates-but so quickly does U.S. society shift that the play's topics for dissent are often worn and dated. Director Tom O'Horgan achieves startling production effects even though distraction is certainly no substitute for destination...
Since Hair chooses to stand on an attitude of dissent, mainly about Viet Nam, some of the show's thunder has been stolen by the prospective initiation of peace talks. It gives the show a split personality-musically fresh but intellectually trite and topically dated...
Last October 21, the country's politically alienated youth moved from dissent to resistance. At Howard and Columbia Universities, the politically alienated students moved from resistance to insurgency. Academic guerrilla warfare was initiated by blacks at Howard, and copied successfully by blacks at Boston University and without the help of black students, whose presence in the first occupied building prevented it from being busted the first day, the Columbia demonstration would not have succeeded. But in spite of this, either because white power controls the media or just because it was the culmination of a long string of student rebellions...
...many studies of student activists show that the great majority of them come from families that are prosperous, politically active and liberal. Almost half of the protest-prone students are Jewish; few are Catholic. The most active students cluster in schools that have a tradition of dissent and a tolerance for it-universities such as California, Wisconsin, Columbia. Most of the activists are students of the arts and humanities; they are apt to be bright but dreamy, and not yet committed to careers. Few are in the professional schools-business, engineering or medicine. Since many universities no longer demand compulsory...
Student power can be beneficial; student tyranny never is. Student involvement in politics should be encouraged, but student abuse of the democratic process must always be resisted. Students might well bear in mind the fine distinctions between reasoned dissent and raw intolerance, between knowledge and wisdom, between compromise and copping out. Already 1968 has produced one supreme lesson: students have much more to gain by working actively for change within the existing system than by dropping...