Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard men, this theory says, are Harvard men because they're not--that is, the good thing about Harvard is that it doesn't turn out a pre-stamped, homogeneous product. William James said, "Our undisciplinables are our proudest product," and President Conant agreed: "Harvard was founded by dissenters. Before two generations had passed there was a general dissent from the first dissent. Heresy has long been...
...Only two newsmen, K.R. Malkani, editor of the right-wing Motherland, and Kuldip Nayar, editor of the Indian Express, have been imprisoned. But little change in news coverage has actually occurred because Indian journalists have traditionally depended on government press releases for most of their information. In the past, dissent has only appeared in editorials or in reports of speeches by opposition leaders...
...more liberal bent. In two cases involving antitrust law and criminal procedure, his vote tipped the result 5 to 4 against the conservatives. In a First Amendment case, Burger may have been following Blackmun. The junior Minnesotan expanded the free-speech protection of advertisements and cited with approval a dissent from an opinion he himself had written only a year earlier. Once its slowest writer of opinions, Blackmun no longer half kills himself by personally double-checking every case citation in every opinion he writes or joins, and he is keeping pace with the other Justices...
...Gandhi insisted that the abrupt suppression of political dissent was "not a personal matter. It is not important whether I remain Prime Minister or not. However, the institution of the Prune Minister is important." Despite the argument, many Western critics felt that the imperious Mrs. Gandhi-rather like Richard Nixon during the Watergate crisis-had come to identify her own survival in office with the office itself. As the president of her ruling Congress...
...getting some coworkers' names wrong and that he once even mistook his own chambers for those of Chief Justice Warren Burger. He has chosen not to participate in some 25 cases and has not written a major opinion in 1975, though he has filed a few short dissents. In one such dissent last week he gamely reiterated his feeling that the court is not overworked, as the Chief Justice persistently argues. Wrote Douglas: "I have found it a comfortable burden carried even in my months of hospitalization...