Word: law
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...further law outlined by Feuer states that every student movement must have a "carrier" movement--either a nationalist, peasant, labor, or civil rights cause. Student patronage of such causes tends to distort them, inflame them, or deflect them. Student activists look for and require some oppressed class with which they can identify. They seek to offer themselves in a self-sacrificial way to an excluded group, whether it be the proletariat or a racial minority...
REJECTION by the masses is not a law of history, though. Feuer points out that in developing countries, students may meet favorable circumstances. Where democratic politics are closed off, then the intellectuals--young and old alike--will make common cause. Where the older intellectuals share power or see possibilities of compromise, then the intelligentsia will experience the conflict of generations. This "localized" conflict can be more acute. For the sake of revolutionary purity, students direct their tactics against the old liberals who have "sold out to the Establishment!" And since many of them teach at the university, they are easy...
America's first student left in the thirties spent most of its energies fighting the New Deal. The alternative it had in mind to the economic chaos of the Depression was the law and order of Stalinist Russia. When it became clear by 1940 that Stalin had duped the radicals, or they had duped themselves, the American Left lost credibility with the next generation of students. The radical thirties gave way to the conservative forties and fifties, and the "silent generation" did not life a finger to save the deauthorized elders from the McCarthy persecutions...
Charles R. Nesson, assistant professor of Law, was the first defense witness. He said he saw an individual apprehended by police near the steps of Widener, taken to the steps of University Hall, and turned over to other police there. He was unable to identify the person among the defendants, and Viola excluded practically all his testimony...
Beverly A. Bair, a reporter for the Harvard Law Record who was arrested and released, testified that she was on the landing above the southwest door at 5 a.m. and heard or saw no warning from Dean Glimp. Edward J. Belove '72 of WHRB said he was at the bottom of the southeast steps at 5 a.m. and heard no warning...