Word: dissented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Permissiveness? To Justice Hugo Black, who vigorously dissented (Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote a separate dissent), the decision opened up "a new revolutionary era of permissiveness." Black, who celebrated his 83rd birthday last week, claimed that the demonstration had diverted the pupils' minds from school work. The decision was untimely, said Black, because "groups of students all over the land are already running loose, conducting break-ins, sit-ins, lie-ins and smash...
...when students couch their dissent in more limited terms, like sit-ins or petitions, administrators form The Committee To Investigate. The committee is established to allow those in charge to change the context of the argument. The issue will then be considered in their terms, not the protestors...
...success of Promises and the rest of the latest batch of "rock" musicals certifies the fact that the paths of Broadway and true rock culture will continue to meet in the future. While some of the established critics will dissent--John Wilson of the Times found Promises all beat and no melody--the trend seems to be towards a modernization of the American musical. What remains to be seen is whether the New York musical theatre will receive enough potent doses of pop/rock to bring it down squarely on the side of the cultural revolution...
...preoccupation with Asia at the expense of older Atlantic allies. Nixon's trip will counter that impression, perhaps inspire new purpose in NATO, and probably advance a Franco-American rapprochement. At home, the President can hardly expect a sudden breakthrough in the overweening problems of racial discord and dissent about the Viet Nam war. Europe is the area in which he can best hope to make some quick and perhaps dramatic progress...
...much Washington reporting, Johnson complains, "policy may be distorted. Rumors of dark motives, or of unspecified dissent, may be given equal prominence with the expressed purposes of the Administration. Failure and conflict will certainly be emphasized...