Word: discontentment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In a speech before the New York City bar association, King strongly suggested that civil rights groups have a right to defy law-if only because "they had no part in making" so many laws that affect Negroes. What the U.S. needs, King said, is a "divine discontent." He spoke...
There is little sign of discontent with the squalid life. After all, poverty has been the pattern for centuries. Thousands of volunteers turned out patriotically to dig the slit trenches (Hanoi's air-raid shelters) that have been cut through the once verdant parks along the Red River and...
Urban Impatience. The riots were triggered by a government edict that would have shunted failing students over 17 into technical curriculums. Only 300 of Morocco's 62,000 high school students were affected, but the innocuous announcement was enough to touch off a powder keg of underlying discontent. Unfortunately...
To appease the discontent-and to keep their own jobs-many labor leaders have been forced to abandon responsible restraint at the bargaining table. "It used to be considered a compliment to be called a labor statesman," says Charles Levey, a vice president of the Building Service Employees International. "But...
Sir: The majority of white Americans are sick and tired of seeing mobs of troublemakers, malcontents and beatniks parade the streets. Irresponsible students (out for kicks, some interracial sex and "unholy discontent"), slick politicians, and a few left-wing labor leaders are hardly representative of the public. Priests, nuns, ministers...