Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ordered Normality. That the U.S. is tortured cannot be denied. That it is gravely sick is too simplistic a view. After the first spastic reaction to the Kennedy murder (see PRESS), most commentators rejected a blanket diagnosis of disease while at the same time refusing to completely absolve U.S. society and civilization for what had happened. John Kenneth Galbraith, no Pollyanna when it comes to national flaws, observed last week that "the greater danger in our day than violence is unfocused selfcriticism. Nothing so serves as an excuse from reality...
Coupled with the "shock of confrontation"--disproportionately strong for these students from privileged families--is the vision of failure these students see in the political system. The social injustice, the reaction in rioting that they see around them makes them reject the customary liberal belief that institutions already exist that can relieve the inequities. They have been around too long. Keniston writes...
...morning, they came home to school to tell their friends about it. At a rally in the Yard, once one-time cool-liberals were talking in hot-radical tones about what had happened, and the word brought a reaction...
...Harvard the reaction to the Pentagon was the Dow sit-in. Three hundred students held a Dow recruiter named Frederick Leavitt inside Malinckrodt M-102 for seven hours, then let him go. As a result, 74 students were placed on probation and the Student-Faculty Advisory Council, a committee of the Faculty, was set up to look into recruiting and other things...
...hated. And a government you never knew had decided your future for you. That was lousy and undemocratic, and back in your mind you remembered that the same thing had happened to people in Vietnam and in America and all over the world. And maybe it was an irrational reaction, but you hated your country for what it did and you didn't want to be a part...