Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students," the report stated, "can save or destroy the institution." The commission said that the "survival--literally the survival--of the free university depends upon the entire community's active rejection of disruptive demonstrations." For, it said, "resort to violence or physical harassment or obstruction is never an acceptable tactic for influencing decisions in a university...
...getting 95% of the Republican vote," says Nixon, "but I'm not getting enough of the Democratic vote. That's where Wallace is hurting." To avoid building up the Alabamian, Nixon last week rejected a three-way debate among the major candidates. "I still think the best tactic is for us to ignore Wallace," Nixon told an aide. Besides, he added, "in a debate, he can kick the living bejesus...
...style. But they are substantive, nontheless. No action--by Olimpieri, Stendahl, Faculty, or students--is going to overpower the war machine. One's strategy, then, necessarily becomes that of symbolic protest and confrontation, which differ from publicity stunts in that they aim at raising issues for debate. And this tactic only succeeds when carried off dramatically...
Their argument is that such things are a violation of the Soviet constitution. Their tactic is essentially an appeal to law, and that in itself represents an advance over the days of Stalin, when such a protest would have been meaningless. That it is not entirely meaningless now is demonstrated by the fact that the secret police are also concerned with fabricating cases that they can prop up in a Soviet court. The KGB effort to peddle Solzhenitsyn's manuscripts abroad is a search for a pretext to arrest him. Stalin's police never required pretexts for anything they...
...need of an equally profound uprooting of the entire value-structure, replacing the capitalist ethic of each-man-for-himself-and-God-help-the-one-who-fails by the ethic of service for the universal good. The radical is led, in turn, to the inescapable conclusion that the only tactic open to him is to stake out a community of people who share the same life-style. Such a community would tend to have the same political beliefs as well because one's individual orientation towards one's fellow beings cannot help but influence one's political and social outlook...