Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think that with a little imagination, administrators can find a way to renovate the Houses without engendering a groundswell of student dissent. In fact, reflecting on the newly identified destructive properties of ivy, one such plan has occurred to us, and we call on the University to carry it out at once. Why not uproot Harvard's ivy and transplant it (gingerly-remember the stuff dissolves cement at the touch) to walls more suited for the tendril's secretion; the Pentagon, the Yale Bowl, and the Lampoon Castle come quickly to mind. Harvard would thus keep the Houses from crumbling...
...conflict. A renewed cold war atmosphere freezes the United States and the Soviet Union into intransigent positions. Russia launches escapades in Afghanistan and Poland. The bottom line of all this--more nuclear weapons that are increasingly complex and hence more prone to accidental detonation. This is the stuff of dissent, of passion, of fear. And these are the supporting actors, the backdrop and the props for the ultimate scenario of the absurd...
Second, the conservatives themselves concede that adults have confused two trends: the emergence of some serious dissent among generally liberal student bodies on the East Coast and what Higgins calls "this rising, this nauseating preppydom." Disavowing all connections to the legions of Lacoste, Higgins says with a sneer. "Those people aren't conservatives; those people are drunks...
...Whitehead Institute--a joint venture between MIT and businessman Edwin C. Whitehead--was approved by the MIT Corporation last December despite dissent from faculty members who said the facility would violate MIT's academic integrity. Professors who work for the Institute will be tenured at both the Institute...
...conservative revolt. Yet his history of partisanship had made him anathema to most of the responsible Democrats. Radical opposition to the war thus fed on and merged with hatred of Richard Nixon on the part of many who had no sympathy for radicalism in general. The virulence of dissent was not moderated by those who, presumably, stood for values of civilized discourse and civic responsibility. Their yearning to expiate guilt shattered forever the existing foreign policy Establishment. By the end of Nixon's first term, rational discourse on Viet Nam had all but stopped. The issue posed...