Word: two
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blaine's talk focused on two large groups of young people- "the dropouts and the violent ones." The first group, he said, "are dropping out completely from established society and using harmful drugs regularly." The other group, meanwhile, "is using violent means in an attempt to destroy the structure of [universities]." Blaine subjected both groups to psychological scrutiny in his speech...
Blaine offered two major explanations for the dropouts desire to take risks. The first was the affluence of American society: "Young people brought up in a world where everything has come easily to them begin to long for challenge and they cast about for risks to take . . . ." The other came right from Freud: hippies act like "infants and children [who] demand instant gratification . . . demanding from drugs an instant and constant happiness." They are immature people, for "if maturity comes, it brings with it the capacity to tolerate some present pain in order to achieve a greater pleasure at some later...
...Since then, Berry said, "the University, in my opinion, is really moving. They seem to have a mental commitment to solve this problem." Berry and Harvard officials agree that two specific problems exist...
Carl D. Offner, one of three students dismissed from the University by the Faculty last June, was found guilty on a single charge of assault and battery, carrying a maximum penalty of two-and-a-half years in the state House of Correction and/or a fine...
Superior Court Justice Robert Sullivan, who presided over the two-day trial, said he would pass sentence on Offner this morning at 10 a. m., and ordered him held in custody overnight in the Middlesex County House of Correction in Billerica...