Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from President Johnson's failure to justify the conflict in terms that Americans can readily understand and believe. But if there has been too little enlightenment from the top, there has been too much obfuscation from the nation's academic and intellectual communities, whose present chorus of dissent has reached a volume unparalleled since the antiwar diatribes...
Tutorial in Realities. With high regard for the role of dissent in a democratic society, three leaders of the U.S. National Student Association made the effort of going to Viet Nam. On their return last week, the students expressed a significantly modified view of that country's realities. "It was an expectation of the delegation that they would find among Vietnamese students a 'new left' of some variety that gave a degree of support to the National Liberation Front," they reported. "This expectation was found to have little or no validity. Most students said that the N.L.F...
...What is left of tradition [April 22]? Belief in a government of the people, by the people and for the people. Belief in our hertiage. Belief in the right to dissent. Belief that anyone can be President-even a Roman Catholic. But essentially what is left of our tradition is the belief in something better; in our ability to undergo change...
However, like most fellow Republicans, Dirksen has consistently defended the Administration's conduct of the war-while planning to emphasize as a campaign issue Democratic dissent and disarray over Viet Nam. Resorting to semantics, Dirksen allowed: "He uses the word mismanagement. I thought perhaps 'misjudgment' might be a better term...
...Roots of Alienation. Keniston visualizes and defines the professionalists as the bulk of students, but he believes that the emergence of this type has been paralleled by a new kind of "student dissent, marginality and misery." He divides these students into three groups, all of them in a sense "professionalists manqu...