Word: splinterable
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...radicals and revolutionaries, the situation is now impossibly confused. Poorly organized splinter group actions have brought down repression on a "class" that can little afford it. And no blow has been struck that might conceivably hasten the day when the primary oppressive forces in our society no longer exist. Yet in sponsoring repression, the merchants have inevitably betrayed the nature of their interest in the Square, and their inevitable allies...
...less than twenty years later, our campuses are experiencing a not dissimilar period of torment, whiplashed as they are by a resurgence of his hateful technique. Again people are looking for scapegoats. But this time the attack comes not from the outside but from within, from extremist splinter groups of the New Left made up of students and- I am sorry to acknowledge- also of some faculty who for reasons not quite clear to me would like to see our colleges and universities denigrated, maligned and even shut down...
...roughed up staff members and employees, and fled after fifteen minutes. Because the attack came so early in the year many people were uncertain about just who the Weathermen were and how strong they were. University officials braced for a violent year. The Weathermen, of course, are a tiny splinter group of SDS and have not reappeared at Harvard since the CFIA action. But the issue of CFIA remains...
Roughly half those eligible attended Phi Beta Kappa ceremonies in the morning; and less than seventy members of the Harvard senior class attended Baccalaureate Service in the afternoon, where President Pusey attacked the tactics of "extremist splinter groups of the New Left" as reminiscent of McCarthy and Hitler...
...Height, the "summer of love" and the following autumn, when the hippie movement was declared dead, murdered by the media. From there, the book shifts back to the East, keeping pace with the changing vibrations, as the love-peace-flower power ethic finally dissolves, and the Movement begins to splinter...