Word: threatenings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wednesday's demonstration, while unpleasant in some of its aspects, does not threaten the stability of the University. Harvard is indeed, as one professor pointed out, a vulnerable University, easy to find fault with, far easier still to attack in rash and unproductive ways. Its tolerance appears at times almost unlimited, so much so that radical reformers occasionally fulminate against administrators who refuse to fight back and who decline to create eyeball-to-eyeball confrontations...
Random and abusive use of police authority threaten the city's well-being and its citizens' respect for law far more seriously than the minor irritations occasioned by transient hippies...
...develop a few more Captain Veres to play opposite his Billy Budd and that the marina-by-the-sanitary-canal may get no farther than the artist's sketch.Vinton W.Bacon isn't as mild-mannered as he looks. His iron hand tactics cleaned up Chicago sewer politics but now threaten to alienate the board whose support he needs...
...threaten confidentiality and to put an applicant in a position in which he is either dishonest or perhaps self-destructively truthful is not only unnecessary, it is immoral," Farnsworth said, destructively truthful is not unnecessary, it is immoral," Farnsworth said...
Clearly the initiative must not be used to introduce popular control willy-nilly over every branch of government. But the Vietnam resolution is no attempt to do this; it does not threaten the activities of any Cambridge body. Rather, the resolution is a reasonable attempt to do precisely what the City Council has clearly done clumsily: portray publicly the opinions of the citizens of Cambridge on the war in Vietnam...