Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sorts is emerging. The board's liberal majority favors a package of tax cuts and increases in Government spending totaling $15 billion to $20 billion. That range is acceptable to some Wall Street economists as well. Two weeks ago, a group of businessmen consulting with Carter showed no dissent to a $23 billion plan proposed by General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones...
More than any of his contemporaries, John Gardner has made being a novelist a hyphenated art. In The Sunlight Dialogues he did a brilliant turn as philosopher-novelist, debating issues of law and dissent while nimbly stage-managing a family melodrama in upstate New York. In his re-creations of myth, Grendel and Jason and Medeia, he played the novelist-as-epic-poet, perhaps a little consciously; but once again he revealed his consistent longing for Significance, for the Big Theme, for some dimension that extends beyond the modern novel into older, more classical forms...
...audience inside, sheltered from the sub-zero wind-chill cold that the protesters endured, didn't seem to believe that, though. Most politely applauded Colby when he finished. They listened patiently when he explained the necessity for gathering information about other countries. They did not offer dissent when he said that he tried to reform the CIA in 1973, before the sensational revelations about assassinations of foreign leaders, deals with Mafia hit-men, domestic spying...
...short shrift given dissent reinforces one's suspicion that data was matched to a preconceived analysis. This "study" of female sexuality devotes only about a dozen pages to women who are able to orgasm during intercourse and who do enjoy satisfactory heterosexual relationships. Even though Hite was not primarily interested in examining contentment, this imbalance unfortunately abets those aiming to detract from the report's overall accuracy...
With his moralist, individualist approach, upperclass lifestyle and unshakeable belief in the democratic and civil libertarian ideals Thomas, never a Marxist ideologue, was at best a bourgeois socialist. Indeed, in his later years, disturbed by the systematic suppression of dissent in Stalinist Russia, he felt his socialist faith slipping...