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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generation of U.S. Catholics, now aged 35 to 60, who combine "oldfashioned religious training" with progressive politics shaped by unionism and papal encyclicals on the worth of labor. This kind of Catholic clings to "an abstract, quasi-scholastic style" marked by witty references to arcane books and thinkers. The type is "congenitally mistrustful of ambition and scornful of those who push themselves beyond their merits." When such a Catholic finds himself tempted by ambition, Sheed claims, "he reminds himself over and over that he isn't that hot." Since U.S. society tends to honor ambition, this Catholic avoids criticism...
...context of genuine pacifism, which is a philosophy which few student demonstrators profess and which many of them betray by their actions. The anti-ROTC movement is mainly an expression of the kind of youthful identity crisis described so well by Erik Erikson. Apart from the fact that this type of emotional crisis makes it difficult to think rationally about complex issues, it appears that the effects are more intense among those young people who are more affluent and more highly educated...
...agents of class-conflict but as fascist pigs. From accounts I have seen, the brutality of the police action consisted as much of psychological shock as of real physical abuse. Any abuse of police power is deplorable; still, if one wants to sponsor revolutionary, up-against-the-wall-type confrontations, one ought to accept the accompanying risks and not be too quick to cry foul...
...Rabinowitz, a teaching fellow in History and Literature and another of the organizers of Harvard New College, said most of the group is supporting the strike and welcomes the opportunity for a new educational experiment. The number of courses will be increased for Wednesday, Rabinowitz will said, and the type of response received will determine what will be done thereafter...
Saturday, the newly-elected president of the Student Association, Carl Hokanson, said he would not make a statement at this time to avoid "the type of emotional response characterized by the statements of certain other elements of the University community." "Information presently available is too emotional in character, and too limited in scope, to form the basis for a useful recommendation," he added...