Word: right
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JUST isn't intellectually fashionable to dismiss student radicalism as part of an international Communist conspiracy. But psychiatrists like the University of Chicago's Bruno Beuclhcim have hit upon a more sophisticated method of diverting attention from racial criticism of American society. Like the right-wing paranoids, they do this by assuming that radicals can't really be all that unhappy with society-that there must be something else behind their protests. To these psychiatrists, that something can be found in Freudian psychological theories...
...offered two major explanations for the dropouts desire to take risks. The first was the affluence of American society: "Young people brought up in a world where everything has come easily to them begin to long for challenge and they cast about for risks to take . . . ." The other came right from Freud: hippies act like "infants and children [who] demand instant gratification . . . demanding from drugs an instant and constant happiness." They are immature people, for "if maturity comes, it brings with it the capacity to tolerate some present pain in order to achieve a greater pleasure at some later time...
University Hall he looked over his right shoulder and saw that Offer "had hold of my right biceps with two hands." When he got outside the building, Watson said, he "was propelled up against the people who were standing on the stairs...
...cops were well trained; they were also lucky. The wind was blowing strong and in the right direction for effective use of the gas. The kids couldn't stay together. There were only thirteen arrests. The radicals who had hoped for an explosion and Attorney General Mitchell, who was also looking for confrontation, could only find a few broken store windows on Connecticut Avenue to point to with pride. The police made both the militants and Mitchell look stupid...
There was one guy on crutches. He said it had been painful near the end. There were a few middle-aged people, but not as many as I had expected. One older couple had been right in front of Tinsley and me. I asked them if their friends ever thought them abit deranged or if they ever made it unpleasant for this couple because they differed in beliefs. "Those people aren't our friends," the man explained. The couple had marched a month ago in Chicago, and now here they were in Washington, after a bus ride from Minnesota...