Word: rebellion
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...course of case-aide work, a certain amount of judgment is called for. The exercise of this judgment prevents the exercise of pure rebellion by the case-aide against a system that has become top-heavy, monolithic, under-financed and therefore incapable of dealing with the problems that are involved in getting patients out. The new Commissioner of Mental Health, Dr. Greenblatt, is and has been very supportive of case-aide work. He really is moving this group, attempting to get patients out into the community and to get community people to work with the patients, to get them placed...
...coincided with final exams. The campus radio station called the state's antimarijuana laws unjust and obsolete, while students circulated a petition saying "I, too, have smoked marijuana." A faculty resolution deplored the police's tactics, charging that the methods employed were more suitable to "quelling a rebellion" than to arresting peaceful students...
...attempt, though not terribly encouraging, was an echo from three decades ago, when Day-Lewis and the rest of the famous Oxford circle (W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender) rumbled with even louder social comment. Like other "horizon-addicts and future-fans" of his time, Day-Lewis, in rebellion against his strict curate father, flirted briefly with Communism; he now recalls his stint as a party educator as "a signal instance of the blind leading the shortsighted." Protest verse did not sell, however, until a chance compliment from T. E. Lawrence was printed in a newspaper column; it caused...
Student power, together with the resistance it has generally encountered from faculty and administration members, has noticeably affected campus attitudes. Much of the actual discontent and rebellion in the student community is due to students' isolation from the rational process which governs their environment...
Some new liberal cause will occupy Lowenstein's time once the McCarthy campaign is over: South Africa, the Franco regime, or most probably a sacrificial senatorial campaign. "I think he will always fight cursades because injustice fills him with a sense of rebellion. He wants to be of help in some way . . . ," wrote Eleanor Roosevelt about Lowenstein. Norman Thomas has nothing but the highest admiration for his young friend Lowenstein...