Word: dissenter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dissent...
...good professor of government knows, dissent and demonstration have long and proud histories in our democracy. Those who organized and attended the rally were moved to action by the vision of a more just Harvard. We want to attend a university that respects its janitors and dining workers enough to pay them a decent wage. We are outraged that Harvard lacks basic resources like a women's center and adequate services for sexual assault...
...good professor of government knows, dissent and demonstration have long and proud histories in our democracy. Those who organized and attended the rally were moved to action by the vision of a more just Harvard. We want to attend a university that respects its janitors and dining workers enough to pay them a decent wage. We are outraged that Harvard lacks basic resources like a women's center and adequate services for sexual assault...
...sometimes in turnaround), as each new generation reinvents the past according to its needs. That the governing board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, that most cautious of Hollywood institutions, would abandon the town's ruling narrative conventions and embrace historical indeterminacy by voting--without dissent or demur--to present this year's honorary Oscar to a proud, fragile, now almost silent old man named Elia Kazan is astonishing. And to some of its constituents, adherents of both the old and new left, shocking...
...have no doubt that future generations willpick up this dissent," Strossen said...