Word: reject
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reject the view that ascribes the April and May disturbances primarily to a conspiracy of student revolutionaries. That demonology is no less false than the native radical doctrine that attributes all wars, racial injustices, and poverty to the machinations of a capitalist and militarist "Establishment." Student revolutionists within SDS planned turbulent confrontations and revolutionary tactics. They manipulated facts in ways that created distrust and bred unwarranted antagonism. There apparently was occasional talk of wider revolution to overthrow the present political system. A very few revolutionists may have been in dead earnest. More, we suspect, were half in dreamland, feverishly discussing...
Third, the survival--literally the survival--of the free university depends upon the entire community's active rejection of disruptive demonstrations. Any sizeable group, left to pursue such tactics, can destroy either the university by repeatedly disrupting its normal activities or the university's freedom by compelling the authorities to invoke overwhelming force in order that its activities may continue. The only alternative is for the entire community to reject the tactics of physical disruption with such overwhelming moral disapproval as to make them self-defeating...
...Squad," with its unrecognizable caricatures of these scary kids, is reassurance for frightened adults. The images say that kids who reject the advantages offered them are not morally superior but spoiled troublemakers who will regret it later, that black people just need more of the old free enterprise system, that the Army makes a man of you, that any of these hippie kids would just jump at the chance to play ball, to get on the bandwagon, to join the team...
...peaceful demonstrators. The Mexican government is "protecting" the athletes and spectators at the Olympic Games form harm by mowing down potential troublemakers with bullets. This kind of protection should not be accepted or tolerated by athletes there--including the Harvard crew. All athletes at the Games ought to reject the barbarism of the Mexican authorities and refuse to participate in the Games...
...commission members "reject the view that ascribes the April and May disturbances to a conspiracy of student revolutionaries." The report said that "the grievances of the rebels were felt by...probably a majority of the students." This support, it said, was felt even before the violent confrontations with the police. "Support for the demonstrators," the commission wrote, "rested upon broad discontent and widespread sympathy for their position...