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...want to hear radio music pumped into them on Washington buses carried their objections all the way to the Supreme Court, only to have the court rule in 1952 that this invasion of their privacy was not an invasion of their privacy. (Justice William Douglas' dissent reasserted the principle that "the right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.") Composer Jacob Druckman is one man who retains a sensitivity to music even when Muzak tells him not to listen. "I grit my teeth whenever I go into an elevator or a restaurant," says...
Such attention is nothing new for Revel, a literary editor and columnist for the newsmagazine L 'Express and its editor in chief from 1978 to 1981. His 1970 book in praise of American freedom of dissent, Without Marx or Jesus, outraged nationalistic French intellectuals of both the left and right. In 1976 he created another furor with The Totalitarian Temptation, a blistering condemnation of French Socialist tolerance of "vintage Stalinism...
...some, the issue involves the credibility of the church's magisterium, or teaching authority. In Western Europe and North America, there is widespread dissent among Catholics on the birth control question. A 1982 survey by the U.S. Government's National Center for Health Statistics found that 91% of Catholic women between ages 15 and 44 who have had sexual intercourse used artificial methods. Says Father William Smith, dean of St. Joseph's Seminary in New York, who favors the Pope's clampdown: "Every moral question is at stake in the contraception debate." The dilemma for developing...
...extremist Sikhs themselves: It was no secret that any Sikh who spoke out publicly against Bhindranwale and his unreasonable demands would inevitably placed on his hit list. Such is the phenomenon of extremist factions within a community; the violence and antagonism are directed towards the community itself to quell dissent from within...
...cornerstone of American democracy. The Puritans in England, for example, went to the New World because they believed it was a place where they might have religious freedom, but only for themselves. Wherever Early American clergymen controlled the lives of their people, they permitted absolutely no dissent from their own religious and political beliefs...