Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kaiser also agrees with Steiner that German literature is in an era of creative ferment, partly because of the country's tradition of being open to influences from the East. On the other hand, he is skeptical of Russia's growing body of literature of dissent. "One shouldn't forget that everything that came from Prague in 1968 was, for purely political motives, a bit overestimated. One closed both eyes and found it a bit better than it was. This might also be the case with Solzhenitsyn today...
...discriminate against pamphleteers, maybe the way to save the privilege is not to limit it at all. We might simply be prepared to forego the testimony of those criminals who bothered to establish "sham" newspapers. This seems to be the position taken by Justice William O. Douglas in his dissent in the Caldwell case...
...primary medium used by the movement, the demonstration itself is a phenomenon worthy of investigation. Marching in a rally has a symbolic significance which marks dissent, but does not entail an excess of commitment. One gains a sense of solidarity and unified power while protesting among ranks of thousands of other protestors. It is dissidence, but a safe dissidence...
...getting a kind of fallout from the general prosperity of Western Europe, which has increased the nation's tourist revenues and the remittances sent home by Greeks working abroad. The Papadopoulos government has persuaded Greeks to put the money to work within their own country, partly by dampening dissent-Greek businessmen need not fear strikes-and partly by promotional schemes, including a campaign to get Greeks to invest their savings in the local stock market. A building boom has followed, and tens of thousands of Greeks have begun returning from West Germany, Canada and the U.S. to cash...
...White and Rehnquist eventually wound up in lonely dissent on the court, they were soon joined by a clamor of antiabortionists across the country. New York's Terence Cardinal Cooke called the opinion "a tragic utilitarian judgment" and added that "judicial decisions are not necessarily sound moral decisions." James Lenehan, chairman of a Connecticut Right to Life committee, wondered "how the Supreme Court can at one time rule against capital punishment and then allow the wholesale slaughter of unborn children." Georgia's Right to Life chairman, Joe Bowman, was reminded "of the 1857 Dred Scott decision, which said...