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...been students' experience with the Vietnam War. Of course disillusionment with authority doesn't necessarily lead to activism. But given the examples of anti-war protest in the nation at large, and the more particular protest on campuses like Berkeley, the critical student's great frustration has found vent in active protest on campus issues...
...badger him," the mood of the protesters literally shifted instantaneously to one of warmth and sympathy. Someone offered Leavitt a Harvard lunch bag, which he would accept only after it had been pushed at him several times. That ended a very distinct phase in the demonstration--the vent your Vietnam venom on Leavitt stage. Leavitt had personally proved to be a lousy symbol of the war machine...
Three Ringleaders. At an inquiry after the fire, convicts testified that two white prisoners and a Negro had planned the riot, possibly to mask a prison break, possibly just to vent some frustrations. "They really wanted to tear it up," testified one prisoner, but for what reason he could not-or would not-say. Nor could the three ringleaders. All had perished in the blaze...
...interpretation that might be drawn from these results is that students who used the Psychiatric Service were less willing to be conformists in social situations, less willing to be deferent in their relationships with others, and felt a stronger pressure to give vent to their impulse in overt behavior...
Wilson found it difficult "to maintain friendly relations with men of superior intellect or position," write the authors. Why? They were father figures against whom he could vent the repressed hostility toward his own father, which, as any amateur Freudian knows, lurked behind the ostentatious affection. "Wilson's immoderate Super-Ego demanded from him the impossible." Why? "Because he was the son of God." Faced with aggressive (that is, masculine) resistance to his peace program, he practiced the feminine strategy of capitulation. Why? "His unconscious desire to be Christ invented the comforting theory that he could obtain all that...