Word: rebellion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Would Columbia University succumb to anarchy? The question was real enough in the tumultuous spring of 1968 after the student rebellion had paralyzed the Morningside Heights campus. The situation called for a skilled negotiator, a man expert at the resolution of conflicts. Such a man emerged from the law-school faculty. Overnight, Professor Michael I. Severn, 36, found himself struggling to reunite and reform the badly shaken university. Last week the trustees rewarded Severn's largely successful efforts by naming him to succeed William C. Warren as dean of Columbia Law School...
...contemporary rage against such things as the war-prone tendency of technology and bureaucratic "rule by Nobody." She understands the "this-is-the-way-the-world-ends" feeling of today's youth as it contemplates the possibility of environmental disaster or atomic war. Though the causes of rebellion and violence often seem just, the use of violence obviously dismays her. "Power and violence are opposites," she writes. "Where one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance." The essence...
...Points of Rebellion, Douglas...
...long ago, I was involved in a heated argument as to whether or not such a creature as man has the right to survive. After reading "Rebellion at Lamar," I am almost ready to concede that he does not. The actions of the adults who attacked helpless children were incredibly vicious, but that their neighbors, in the calmer moments afterward, applauded the attack as "what is right" is shocking beyond words. As Thomas Jefferson said in reference to a related problem: "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just...
Though he is broad-minded in some areas of theology (he is a graduate of liberal Colgate Rochester Divinity School), Jackson has a view of the Negro recalling the old-fashioned suffering servant image from Isaiah. Christianity, he argues, permits protest against unjust laws but not rebellion against civil order. "The difference between Negro Christians and white Christians." says Jackson, "is the meaning of the cross of Jesus Christ. Our forefathers were cross-bearers. They believed in it. You can't build a great church preaching hate, envy, and revenge, and sending the people out on the street after...