Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peretz is now on the editorial board of Dissent magazine and is a part owner of Washington Monthly. He is also former contributor to Ramparts magazine...
...thousands of young Americans, Bob Dylan is one of the very few personalities to emerge intact from the '60s whirlwind. A vindicated Cassandra who, in crystallizing once vague discontents, transformed dissent from an intellectual hobby to a public cause, Dylan sang about the turmoil of a generation. The generation listened. Now it remembers...
...columnist (50 U.S. Catholic newspapers), the author of 40-odd books and, of late, a celibate sex expert. He is an informational machine gun who can fire off an article on Jesus to the New York Times Magazine, on ethnic groups to the Antioch Review, and on war to Dissent. This year he will write his first novel-about Chicago's Irish. "He's obsessive, compulsive, a workaholic," says Psychologist-Priest Eugene Kennedy, a close friend. "He's a natural resource. He should be protected under an ecological...
...your editorial, what dismayed me was not some people's unflagging support for Nixon. That was to be expected. What sickened me was their demands that a magazine that dares to attack the President close down. Nowhere does the Constitution limit free speech to politicians and political candidates. Dissent is what freedom of the press is all about. Those who want nothing but a docile, uncomplaining, unquestioning press might just as well live under Communism...
...fight with Britain in the face of great popular support for the nation's first ally. Thomas Jefferson secretly schemed to enlarge the Navy's operations in the Barbary wars. President James Folk's reckless acquiescence to annexation fever during the Mexican War created dissent in Congress and among non-frontier voters that, in Javits' view, stood "unequaled until the war in Viet...