Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...common strategy in defense of things as they are has become plain. Administrators remain unresponsive to protest against their unlawful conduct until such time as frustration drives the protesters into some trivial "disorder." Then the righteous, with tears in their eyes, call in the head-beaters to preserve law and order and academic freedom...
...Historian Crane Brinton, in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, predicted by 1970-decidedly prematurely -the start of "plain, unblushing repression of much that our Freudian age regards as irrepressible. Indeed a partial return to public and private Victorian decencies...