Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lowell House dining hall during exam period. But it is echoed without conviction. Harvard students accept their role on the assembly line. We do not see evidence of inequity and oppression in the policies of University administrators. We do not translate our self-doubt into a political ideology of dissent. Instead, we strive to overcome doubt with methodical academic workmanship. We define our accomplishments within existing parameters and rarely question those limits...
...still lives and writes in Communist Hungary, where his novel passes from hand to hand in a process known by the Russian term samizdat: self-publishing. He has even been granted permission for a two-year stay in the West. Though Hungary has proved to be more forbearing of dissent than other countries in the Soviet bloc, Konrád is surprised by the degree of tolerance he has encountered at home...
Neither proposal aroused strenuous dissent, but lively interchanges peppered both discussions...
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES assigned a particular task often pursue it with a single-mindedness, an inertia, that precludes any kind of dissent. In his new book. The Cult of the Atom, Daniel Ford shows that this bureaucratic blindness is now here more apparent than in the case of the Atomic Energy Commission. Set up in 1946, the A.E.C. took on the task of overseeing and encouraging the development of the American nuclear power industry...
...both safe and economic. Memos were suppressed, evidence was ignored, and analytic methods minimized the estimated dangers. Commission scientists and employees were explicitly instructed that they should "Never disagree with established policy." But Ford is able to chronicle this manipulation and bureaucratic blindness precisely because there always was some dissent within the A.E.C. Scores of scientists spoke candidly to him of the actual dangers involved; one A.E.C. scientist explained to Ford that he was not allowed to release a damaging document, and then proceeded to drop the document into a nearby trash can, commenting that he would not notice...