Word: rising
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Perhaps the most dramatic evidence in the entire poll on how rapidly American morality is changing," says the survey, "is the rise-and the admission of that rise-in what would surely have been considered highly serious moral infractions only a short time ago." The number of people who say that they know someone who commits adultery has risen from 24% to 36% since 1964; 15% now-v. 10% then-virtually admit to instances of adultery in their own family. In other areas, 13% know someone whose child uses marijuana, 59% know someone who drinks too much, 22% know someone...
This statement goes on to assert, in terms which could not be more disingenuous, the responsiveness of Harvard administration and faculty to student demands: "There can be no doubt of their desire to understand the pressures of war, social unrest, poverty, racial discrimination, and the rise of impersonal political institutions on Harvard students-as indeed on students everywhere...
...city planning. Poverty work is increasingly popular. VISTA, for example, is swamped with applicants, including 856 graduating law students, or about 5% of the total number finishing law school this spring. Despite all the major objections to U.S. policy in Viet Nam, applications to the Foreign Service continue to rise and those to the Peace Corps remain steady. A desire to avoid the draft figures in the decision of many students to go into teaching; the New York City school system received 17,199 more applications last year than the year before. Nevertheless, many putative draft dodgers find a true...
...While history does not repeat itself, and while the present U.S. situation is radically different from that of pre-Hitler Germany, given these vast differences, some of the similarities between the present student rebellion and what happened in the German universities which spearheaded Hitler's rise to power are striking. To use only one example, German universities began to cave in when students coerced faculties to appoint professorships in Rassenwissenchaft, that is, professorships devoted to teaching the special aspects, merits, achievements, of one race versus others, rather than concentrating in their teaching on contributions to knowledge, whatever the origin...
...says. "Means were necessary to accomplish certain objectives. The objectives of the students warranted relatively drastic means. And remember, the occupation of a building is an essentially non-violent form of exercising one's point of view. In judging the appropriateness of this means, consider the example of the rise of the unions--it is the doctrine of countervailing power...