Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intensity of her conviction. It was obvious, even before she told me, that she had not had much education. The things she said I might have heard before, but not with the same "naive" intensity. The feeling with which she spoke each word overwhelmed my college-conditioned tendency to dismiss without a second thought any ideas expressed poorly or in cliches. I knew nothing about her, but I could tell that whoever and whatever she was, she was something special. I looked forward to spending time with this haunting, strange, wild girl-a witch, she called herself...
Last spring the Committee of Fifteen, exercising similar powers, separated five students and required another eight to withdraw for a semester or a year for their roles in the occupation of University Hall last April. In addition, the Committee recommended that the Faculty "dismiss" three others-a more severe punishment which the Faculty approved-require 20 to withdraw (but suspended their sentences) and put 99 students under warnings...
...physical health. Moreover, said Gesell, a doctor indicted under the statute was "presumed guilty" unless he could prove to a jury that the operation was necessary. In the companion case of a nurse's aide named Shirley Boyd who had performed an abortion, Judge Gesell refused to dismiss the indictment on the grounds that only licensed physicians may do such surgery. But the judge agreed with Mrs. Boyd's argument that the law results in discrimination against the poor...
Certainly many dropout types fit Blaine's description-as do many adults. But to dismiss hippies as people who haven't grown up is simplistic in the extreme. Surely a life style which stresses enjoyment of the present instead of planning for the future can attract people who aren't emotional infants...
...JUST isn't intellectually fashionable to dismiss student radicalism as part of an international Communist conspiracy. But psychiatrists like the University of Chicago's Bruno Beuclhcim have hit upon a more sophisticated method of diverting attention from racial criticism of American society. Like the right-wing paranoids, they do this by assuming that radicals can't really be all that unhappy with society-that there must be something else behind their protests. To these psychiatrists, that something can be found in Freudian psychological theories...