Word: verbalizations
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...explanation many protesters offer for their switch from verbal to physical dissent is that no one pays attention to words alone any longer. However eloquent it has been, however imaginative its uses, language has not succeeded in eliminating racial discrimination or ending the war in Indochina. So the protesters have resorted to what Social Psychologist Franklyn Haiman of Northwestern University calls "body rhetoric"-sit-ins, lie-ins, marches-and more and more bodies have started colliding. Such public confrontations are an expression of gathering frustration over a society that no longer seems to respond to more traditional forms of dissent...
This argument contains a measure of truth. It is also true that in many cases the massed forces of dissent-as at most of last week's rallies mourning the Kent State four-have demonstrated a commendable restraint in not letting verbal protest build into violence. The fact remains, however, that all too often these days dissent is a matter of arson and rock throwing. The reason may be that protesters have despaired of the efficacy of words before they have really mastered them. It is significant that this generation of dissenters has failed to produce a literature...
...with its own ideology and set of mores-many of them surprisingly competitive. "Power to the people" is an admirable democratic slogan-except that, as used presently, what it really seems to mean is power to the leftist radicals who seek to control any revolution in America. It is verbal overkill to describe every mild demurral by whites against the most bluntly radical of black-militant demands as nothing but "racism." And the case for political dissent is weakened when almost any attempts, however peaceful, by college authorities to restore law and order on campus are automatically condemned by militant...
...emphasis is on process and technique, a performance for them becomes a phase of the rehearsals, perhaps not as good as some of the earlier phases. In fact, the plays are probably more fun to rehearse than perform. On one hand, the acting and inspiration are often simplistic, the verbal content a makeshift, and the net result a series of disconnected routines. On the other hand, the acting is stark, direct, and risky, particularly in playing out whatever seems appropriate (like dry copulating during a reading of the Biblical "begats" in Serpent ). And because the open development asks...
When not engaged in verbal crossfire, the committees settled down to outlining York's problems and devising remedies. At each session, some of the three dozen experts brought in from the outside were available for counsel. The city administration was never represented in any strength, but District Attorney Harold Fitzkee Jr. participated regularly. Mayor Eli Eichelberger apprehensively attended only after he had been assured that he would not be heckled from the floor, and Councilmen David Milne Jr. and Albert L. Hydeman Jr. were present on occasion...