Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...university) is not immediately useful to established power it tends to withdraw, and place itself between itself and the anxieties and responsibilities of the world, what Auden in one of his poems referred to as "lecturing on Navigation while the ship is going down." The university can accommodate itself to national power in one of two ways--overtly or covertly, through subservience or indifference, through the performance of assigned tasks, or the distraction and trivialization of potentially critical thought...
...apart philosophically. The Soviet Union is a socialist state that still controls all the means of production-and it has no more intention of changing that situation than the U.S. has of embracing it. Moreover, the Soviet state holds virtually all the power in Russia and can bestow or withdraw freedoms at a whim, while protections against an arbitrary state are built deep into the law in the pluralistic society...
...much more inclined to caution than before, partly because collegial leadership breeds indecision and partly because Russian foreign policy has suffered some notable defeats in recent years. One of the reasons that Nikita Khrushchev was ousted was his foreign adventurism, which led to such Soviet setbacks as the forced withdraw all of its missiles from Cuba. Since then, Russia has had to pay the cost of backing the Arabs in their Middle East debacle and has seen its onetime chief ally, China, become a vituperative and potentially dangerous enemy right on its borders...
...foundation are victims of dyslexia (TIME, May 13, 1966), a catchall term describing children who suffer from slight brain damage or inherited neurological handicaps that interfere with their control over both motor and sensory functions. Some are hyperactive-any kind of stimulation distracts them, makes them restless. Others withdraw into a shell, have trouble expressing themselves, prefer not to try rather than risk failure at learning. All seem unable to concentrate more than fleetingly on a problem; many see letters transposed, hear sounds out of order, cannot write in a normal sequence...
...Putnam said in an interview last night that his statement at the rally did not mean he would withdraw from Harfor a year if just some students were severed. He did say that he thought punishing just a few was impossible to accomplish fairly, and that it betrayed the wishes of all who handed in bursar's cards in sympathy...