Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dissent from the report of the task force on concentrations released yesterday, Alan E. Heimert '49, Cabot Professor of American Literature and a member of the task force, argues that the task force did not adequately consider arguments for a limited enrollment policy in some concentrations...
...South Korea. Repressive presidential decrees prescribe prison terms for dissent. Eighteen well-known political, intellectual and church leaders, including former Presidential Contender Kim Dae Jung, have been jailed for dissent. "We say we're there to protect democracy," scoffs a U.S. official. "Is there any left...
...plan was put together by Schlesinger, Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus and their aides, working with energy specialists from Congress and existing energy agencies. There was debate, and some dissent, on specific points, but the planning sessions generally went quite smoothly...
...about nuclear fallout, came in 1966 as merely an early ripple in a wave of muckraking that has washed away the glowing image of the scientist as some kind of superman. Scientists now appear to be as fallible as the politicians with whom they increasingly consort. In Advice and Dissent: Scientists in the Political Arena, two academic scientists, Physics Teacher Joel Primack of the University of California and Environmentalist Frank von Hippel of Princeton, present case histories documenting the tendency of many scientists to "look the other way" when the Government wants to lie about technical matters. A scholarly polemic...
...signed by, among others, Woody Allen, Norman Mailer, Hugh Hefner, Daniel Ellsberg and John Dean, wasn't willing to leave it at that. In black block letters three inches high, it proclaimed, LARRY FLYNT: AMERICAN DISSIDENT. This label was enough to move the Times to its own editorial dissent. Dissident has an honored meaning these days, and belongs to those who, like Andrei Sakharov, at risk to their own freedom boldly challenge the Soviet Union to live up to its constitution. Flynt himself seems to have had a better sense of proportion about his role-and a good...