Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million people are under 40 and had little or nothing to do with the war. If many of them are "Hitler's children," born during his rule, the Führer would surely disown them. They are painfully aware of their country's Nazi past; two years ago, a public opinion poll showed that 60% of those between the ages of 16 and 29 would rather live in another country...
...Opinion surveys show that the majority of students are willing to accept the existence of East Germany as a separate state and to write off the territory beyond the Oder-Neisse line. German students have a deep revulsion to any thing that reminds them of Hitler?and that sometimes includes their own parents. At the same time, students who only a few years ago looked to the U.S. as a model are now somewhat disenchanted, largely because of the Viet Nam war and U.S. racial disturbances. German students are also strongly antimilitaristic, a fact that will probably prompt the Socialists...
...Faculty meeting was very bizarre," Ptashne told members of the student Mobilization Committee (SMC). "It looks like a victory, but we came very close to losing. Most Faculty members simply do not want to overthrow the ordinary niceties and express political opinion on the floor of a Faculty meeting...
...vote expressing the majority opinion of the Faculty would have no binding effect on those who disagreed. After several Faculty members emphasized that the resolutions would have no coercive effect on the dissenting minority, Hoffmann said that a refusal to vote would also be coercion against those who felt the Faculty should state its view...
Thomas C. Schelling, professor of Economics, said that the convocation was "a crummy idea." As a more appealing alternative to this "poor and demeaning way" of sensing Faculty opinion, he suggested the convocation planners call another meeting on October...