Word: expressivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...characters made up as Jean Harlow and Billy the Kid swap repetitive obscenities for 60 minutes. To what end? If The Beard means to scandalize, it fails: its words are now numbingly familiar onstage. If it means to extol freedom of speech, it falters: its four-letter words express so little that they produce constraint of speech...
...appeared uninvited at a faculty meeting and proceeded to complain about his teachers' politics-too liberal, of course. Even his father felt constrained to admonish him: "I like very much your attitude of having strong convictions, but you will have to learn to be more moderate in the expression of your views and to express them in a way that would give as little offense as possible to your friends." That was about the only piece of advice from his father that Buckley managed to ignore...
...wish to express my support for the courageous action taken by those who picketed the Dow Chemical representative last Wednesday. The demonstration was certainly noted in Europe as well as within the United States. I hope that in considering possible discipline of those involved, the Faculty will not allow parochial considerations of their own convenience to blind them to the enoromous moral implications of the demonstrators' stand. Few of the many parallels drawn between the war in S.E. Asia and World War II seem to be relevant. But it is certainly possible that if the manufacturers of poisonous gases...
...number of attempts to misrepresent the issue here as being concerned with the use of napalm or the war in Vietnam. No one in a official connection with the University has ever suggested that students should not have freedom to demonstrate in an orderly fashion or otherwise to express their views on these or other matters of concern to them. Indeed they have been encouraged to do so. Objections arise only when they become so carried away by their conviction about the rightness of their cause and so impatient with civilized procedures that they seek to restrain the freedom...
Demonstrations against the war will no doubt continue. Students who oppose it have a right and a duty to express their opposition. Civil disobedience is not the only way, and it is not the best way--demonstrations are an expression of impotence, not power, and it will take a building of political strength to end the war. But civil disobedience is one way for students to call attention to the incursions of the war on their campus: and the intensity, inevitability, and morality of their protest should be respected...