Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrong and simplistic to think that, simply because these "modern students" are not the same kind of dedicated academics their predecessors were, they are antagonistically anti-intellectual. To be sure, they resent the emphasis on professional training, on medieval scholasticism, and on ethereal abstractions. But this does not mean they are anti-intellectual, any more than it means that the medieval scholastic is a true intellectual. Often, just the opposite is the case: we've all had times when we've felt that we've learned far more from a good bull-session than we have from a lecture...
...Harvard student (we all see ourselves as self-sufficient "Harvard Men"), operate to intimidate students from admitting that they have problems which they cannot solve themselves. Dr. Perry of the BSC claims that Harvard is forced into this posture to avoid charges of paternalism from students who resent an overactive counselling staff...
...Christian, I resent the blasphemy against Jesus Christ that has been heard in The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour [Feb. 2]. As an American, I resent the sniping at our President and other loyal Americans. As a man, I resent the efforts of CBS to foist upon the public as "comedians" two of the most uninspired straight men ever to step into the spotlight...
...marches through the cobblestoned streets of Louvain, chanting Flemish slogans and bringing out the cops again. "Whenever the language issue crops up in this country," noted Vanden Boeynants sadly, "passion takes over." Language is the surface issue, but the root of the crisis goes far deeper. The Flemish bitterly resent more than a century of domination by prosperous, influential Walloons, who constituted a majority of the Belgian population until World War II. Since then, huge foreign investments in less-developed Flanders and a higher Flemish birth rate have shifted the economic and numerical balance. But most Flem ish still feel...
Abbots and abbesses of contemplative communities believe that more changes are necessary-most notably, greater contact with the secular world. But renewal is proceeding slowly, partly because of the opposition of older monks and nuns who resent any departure from tradition...