Word: suppressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They want WBAI off the air--or at the very least have asked the FCC to conduct an "investigation"--for having permitted an anti-Semitic poem to be read by a black schoolteacher. And when the same people who are supposed to be fighting suppression of various freedoms start trying to suppress yours. liberals suddenly become part of the whole bad joke...
Laing indicts modern society for producing an alienated experience and a false reality by indoctrinating its members to overemphasize the "outer" and suppress the "inner." By "inner" Laing means "out way of seeing the external world and all those realities that have no 'external,' 'objective' presence--imagination, dreams, fantasies, trances, the realities of contemplative and meditative states, realities of which modern man, for the most part, has not the slightest awareness." "Normal" human experience is a shrivelled vestige of the potentials of human experience; it is an experience so exclusively dedicated to external substance that it loses internal meaning...
...courses" which result do not justify that dangerous precedent of changing it. I suggest that just as rioters cannot be condemned with complete justification so long as their interests find no adequate voice of representation in he political system, the use of force by Harvard students to suppress course offerings cannot be justifiably condemned by the CRIMSON, so long as students have no representation in the selection of courses, instructors, and points of view...
Obviously, the creation of institutions representing students in decisions on these matters would serve a greater purposes than justifying the condemnation of those who choose to suppress course offerings by force. First, student representation in early stages of course selection would make it unlikely that a course so out of tune with students interest as Planning 11-3b would ever get so far as a first meeting. Second, such institutions would inhibit the tendency to see course offerings as imposed by an alien body and justifiably obstructed by force. Third, and most important, the limited resources of the University...
...various aspects of the U.S. military; to justify the right to be so trained necessitates condoning the activities in which the U.S. military engages--in effect, one would have to support the right of conquest, the right of a foreign government to exploit a people and to suppress the Black liberation movement at home. There is no such right, any more than there is a right for Murder, Inc. to train and recruit instruments of death...