Word: methods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...negotiations, most of which proved constructive and orderly. Surely the price paid by the University--animosities, divisions, sanctions, fatigue, the genuine suffering inflicted by the events on so many, and the diversion of energy from the essential functions of the University--proves that disruptive tactics cannot become a recurrent method of government or progress. Surely, the members of this community and especially the students have enough imagination to produce the benefits without the costs. Confrontation, violent action and reaction, the radicalization of some and the alienation of others are not constructive in themselves...
...abetted those who refused any dialogue at all. Those who came in with the hope of improving the University, served those who wanted to shut it down. Those who came to protest against Vietnam, the very symbol of violence, became the hostages of those who favor violence as the method of change...
...Freshman class has selected an unfortunately thoughtless method of presenting their case since yesterday's petition was the first word of any dissatisfaction. The better way would have been to call the attention of the Department to the matter before resorting to a petition...
...explaining that it sought merely to foster "balanced debate" on such issues as ABM. However, he left no doubt as to where the committee would stand on the ABM. Charging that the opposition proposed a "one-sided United States moratorium" on defense-missile systems, he ridiculed this as a method for achieving arms-control negotiations...
...establishment. The excessive repetition of line and gesture, for example, makes the characters look a little silly: it balances their very romantic notions and intense self-attention. Humor like this, putting the real sympathy these people evoke into perspective, is a blessing in an art and a college whose method these days is undisciplined over-seriousness