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Word: suspectible (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right but do too little about it over too long a period. They are considered the worst hypocrites of all. Student activists tend to see the establishment in its totality as monolithic and discount any cracks that may appear in its granite face. All authority, except their own, is suspect. Exercise of authority by the university is seen not as a legitimate protection of the university but as a line of defense for the society that controls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Meaning of 'Activism' | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

Ideology is Suspect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Meaning of 'Activism' | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

...Orientation to specific issues: Ideology is suspect. Also, given the variety of points of view among participants, it would be completely divisive. There is no more chewing on the beard of Karl Marx, although there is a certain blindness toward the leftwing authoritarianism of Cuba and China, even though authority in other and less harsh forms is violently opposed. If there could be said to be any inherent central ideology, it would be syndicalism with its emphasis on means. And syndicalism was never much of an ideology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Meaning of 'Activism' | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

...choice, rather, is for individual issues, one or a few at a time. Issues with a high moral content are preferred--like those involving equality, freedom and peace. Intellect, like ideology, is suspect. Morality, instead, is substituted. Facts, history, analysis, theory are often considered more impediments than aids...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Meaning of 'Activism' | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

While he was in Laredo last month. Hale called on Kazen in his downtown law offices. What they discussed is unknown, but many suspect that Kazen has long felt the whole Laredo VISTA program to be a potential threas to the smooth functioning of the machine, and was taking this opportunity to help get rid of two of the biggest "troublemakers...

Author: By William C. Bryson, | Title: When a Poverty Program Meets a Machine Or, What Happened to VISTA in Laredo | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

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