Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commend you on your fine Essay on student protest [May 3]. In an age of uncertainty and doubt it is all too easy for students to latch on to a certain philosophy and use it as their panacea. Too often this philosophy becomes dogma, blinds its proponents to other viewpoints, and leads them to the all or nothing stage. It is then that the intellectual process breaks down, and a meaningful and productive interplay of ideas, which is so desperately needed now, ceases. I can only hope that both students and administrators will never be afraid to open themselves continually...
...that the organizers of the Poor People's March on Washington have set up "an agency to process marchers' welfare checks" as they "prod Congress into granting greater aid to the 29,900,000 American poor." At least they will have something to live on while they protest against the Government's lack of concern for them...
Roszak, chairman of the History of Western Culture program at California State College, said that "until the recent rash of campus protest related to the Vietnam war, nothing has so characterized the American academic as a condition of entrenched social irrelevance, so highly developed that it would be comic if it were not sufficiently serious in its implications to stand condemned as an act of criminal delinquency...
...largely to the forceful intervention of heavyweight coach Harry Parker, race officials decided to allow Harvard to enter the afternoon finals. But the decision brought bitter protest from Princeton's coach, and reports circulated that several schools would refuse to row if Harvard entered...
...wonder at it all--a thousand teachins, marches, demonstrations before, when you were young, or younger. A generation had grown up on Vietnam protest. And here, was a carnival atmosphere. "One more parade...