Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Finer, a first-year student at Brooklyn Law School, underwent some kind of conversion in going to work for Eikenberry. "I considered myself really conservative," he says. "I probably would have voted for Nixon in '68, but I didn't register. Now, there is so much dissent, and Nixon doesn't seem to respond. I'm tired of just sitting back...
...against the students. They have a right to dissent. I hear they are going to Washington to lobby, and I think that's good. That's the way it should be done. But we just can't let them burn down buildings the way they do. We can't let them close down colleges. What about the kids who want to go? We have to stop them before there's nothing left...
...indiscriminate -and unnecessary-use of mass firepower by armed officers and troops trying to control destructive, or disorderly crowds. In each case a basic tenet of all enforcement agencies was violated: apply the minimum amount of force required to accomplish the objective. In an age of mounting civil dissent, many more such situations seem inevitable, raising the question: How can mobs be controlled without killing anyone...
...assemblages. All, perhaps, were inevitable, and were necessary to awaken a sense of remaining alternatives in a people who had lapsed into apathy, exhausted by a meaningless, unending war, silenced by the smiling orthodoxy of an Administration that condoned the most vicious attacks on almost every form of dissent...
...because their kids have taken up campus revolution for no more discernible reasons than sex and excitement. Despite endless minutes of sirens, screams, clubs and tear gas at the finale, Strawberry Statement only manages to make the point that Americans can make musical comedy of anything, including youthful dissent. The shallowness of the movie became all the more obvious when newspapers carried photographs of the killings at Kent State the morning after the screening. "It was a nightmare that day," said Hagmann, "with the reporters coming through saying it was great for sales...