Word: verbalizations
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...home, the modulated tone predominated. Spiro Agnew was playing his own close game. He spent last week almost silently, though he promised to make no "unilateral withdrawal" from the verbal battlefield. A number of Cabinet members continued to take relatively conciliatory lines toward the opposition. Attorney General John Mitchell told a group of Philadelphia public-and parochial-school pupils that "unrest represents dissent, and dissent is a good thing because it brings change in our society. But it must be done in an attitude of respect for the rights of others." But in talking to some Duke University students, Mitchell...
...original mass meeting, the same meeting that had brought the committee into being, as a sort of ad hoc constitution, the whole reason for its existence. It saw the measures passed at the last mass meeting as shackles that would prevent dealing with the demands in any way but verbal masturbation. So it published its intention to "disregard any directives that undermine our original mandate," i.e., the implementation of the four demands...
...statement went further than that, to imply a bold definition of what it really means to strike for the original demands. We concluded that communal lip-service to the four demands didn't create strikers, particularly in view of the fashionability of verbal dissent. One viable strategy for fighting the strike, in fact, was to passively accept the demands while voting down proposals for their implementation...
...deep that we often don't even realize how badly we've neglected this demand. But there is another implication of ignoring the second demand. We are apparently unwilling to confront repression when our proximity to it would mean a real fight. It is easy to make a verbal commitment to the Panthers, because fighting for them seems far away. But when it comes to fighting political repression on the Harvard campus, where the situation today calls for a higher level of commitment than rhetoric, many strikers are strangely reticent...
...petitions circulated among white students yesterday and got more than 200 signatures combined. The moderate petition called for verbal support of the strike, a meaningful Faculty and Administration response, and no reprisals against striking students...