 The approval from "Time" magazine – a mainstream publication widely viewed as reflecting establishment views – added to the song's lack of credibility among the far left.Other commentators on the left applauded the Beatles for rejecting radicalism governed by hatred and violence, and for advocating "pacifist idealism".Among these, the New Left Students for a Democratic Society's newspaper at Cornell University stated that "You can argue about effectiveness of non-violence as a tactic, but it would be absurd to claim that it is a conservative notion ...