Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Governor Ronald Reagan of California yesterday afternoon asked all seven state universities to close until Sunday, so that students could consider "the grave sequence of current events." Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes said that all Ohio universities experiencing unrest should be shut down immediately...
...praised the students who had helped fight campus fires and denied that there was any racial organization behind the disorder. Instead, he blamed the firebombings on "pyromaniacs," and attributed the high school disturbances to a small group of "sick if not insane people who use the cover of student unrest and political tension in the high school to destroy...
...same brand of cliched sociology also turns up in the book's pronouncements about general student unrest. Most college students, the authors tell us, were...
...fact, Douglas repeatedly stresses that the nature of the growing agitation among various groups in this country is not Communist-inspired or oriented. Rather, he asserts, the manifestations of this unrest are expressions of the human spirit rallying against the insensitive of a burgeoning technological and bureaucratic state. He recognizes the inherent dangers in the growing tensions and frustrations in a country where "People march and protest but they are not heard." Douglas is a firm believer in the sanctity of the law, and he does not call for extralegal political activities, as some of his detractors have suggested...
...ancestors came starving on a boat four generations ago. They made it, and many of them died for the new country that was hostile to them. But none of them, from all over Europe, set themselves up as martyrs, full of self-hate. Believe me, the seeds of unrest are not exclusively the black...