Word: dissenter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RICHARD NIXON'S critics often charge that the President is remote from the real world, surrounded by overly protective aides who screen out notes of dissent. To determine just what the outside experts are saying about the economy-and what should be done-TIME correspondents last week interviewed corporate chiefs, trade union leaders and economists. A sampling of opinions: LEONARD WOODCOCK, president of the United Auto Workers. "The best thing that can happen to reverse the inflation is to spur the economy. For that, we should move up the tax cuts already authorized for 1972 and 1973, making them...
Cultivate the Garden. The statement drew objections from some CED members who still feel that business can serve society best by conducting its own operations effectively. In a biting dissent, Philip Sporn, former president of American Electric Power Co., argued that before business gets any heady notions of saving society it must first improve its own performance. The railroad industry, he said, would serve society best by designing the "modern system of transportation" that so far it "has not even approached"; the New York Telephone Co. should improve its present "third rate" service; and the utilities' main obligation, which...
...POLEMICAL ROARERS are the most visible and vocal. Today they form part of the leading edge of youthful dissent and are largely responsible for the present popularity of poetry readings as a kind of folk festival. Their roots go back to the late '50s, when shaggy beatniks bellowed into the smoke-filled darkness along San Francisco's North Beach. Their once and probably future guru is Allen Ginsberg, now 45, and his Howl ("I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness") is still the best of the genre. Ginsberg made the poet into a folk...
Shaken by McCone's vigorous dissent, Johnson submitted a searching question to the CIA: Would the rest of Southeast Asia fall into Communist hands...
...following spring, shortly after the occupation of University Hall, Bunting once again became a symbol of controversy. This time it was for the Radcliffe Council's decision to put 17 students on probation who had not satisfactorily prepared a symposium on dissent that was their "punishment" for the Paine Hall...