Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first step in grasping the reaction of the majority of Americans to lawlessness is to understand that the only thing that makes our Government work is the recognition by the individual of the obligation to accept the majority opinion once lawfully stated, no matter which side he may have taken in' the debating stage. In equating our colony's revolt against King George with the current radicals' attacks on our established democratic forms, you seem to understand this as poorly as the rioters...
...their responses are different. Humphrey might burst into tears at hearing Russia was moving, into, say Rumania. But he'd recover, and quickly confront a cold political situation. Nixon would tackle it as a cold political situation from the beginning. There is a legitimate argument as to which reaction is more appropriate in today's world, and that may be what the 1968 election is all about...
...angry, the answer lately has been protest, demonstration, not. And violence does bring a sense of power does achieve change-though more often it brings only violent reaction. There are other ways, and they work "Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down,' says John Gardner Yet even in despotic societies, good men have managed to rise against the odds and become the architects, not of revolution, but of peaceful change. This is true not merely of the obvious geniuses and unique innovators but of seemingly ordinary people...
Part of the heat being generated against ROTC this fall undoubtedly comes from the war and the gut reaction against a military uniform it has induced. Pell accuses critics of the program of objecting on political rather than academic and administrative grounds, but his own defense of the program is ultimately political too. A supply of well-trained officers is necessary to "the hard-core national interest," he says, and without that supply, "the survival of the nation in a cruel world through the maintenance of adequate deterrent strength will be seriously jeopardized...
...risks on the part of the NYU administration. But the Hatchett ouster has shown that when faced by an atmosphere of racial tension and strong pressure from outside the university, NYU lacked the conviction to follow through with its project. President Hester could hardly have expected any other student reaction to his retreat than the one which developed...