Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approach of Coach Tom Landry and the computers he used to analyze the Dolphins' defenses. They had failed to win the Big Game so often in the past that some of their own fans labeled them "choke artists." Worse yet, the team was reported to be riven by dissent. The surly silence of Running Back Duane Thomas, in fact, gave rise to the rumor that the moody black Cowboys' star would not even bother to suit up for the game...
Historically, however, democratic states have countered that they represent the people's will and the people's morality. They are merely instruments, not ends in themselves. If he has a legitimate means of registering his dissent, the citizen cannot take illegitimate means or decide for himself which laws he will obey and which he will disobey. "In war, and in the court of justice, and everywhere," Socrates told Crito before he drank the hemlock, "you must do whatever your state and your country tell you to do, or you must persuade them that their commands are unjust...
There are two reasons for political preferences of this sort. While progressives may forestall better than reactionaries the economic collapse that appears a prerequisite to fundamental social change, they will make it easier for dissent to coexist with ruling class practice and enable organizers and writers to expand popular consciousness in relative political freedom. Indeed, their inability to resolve fundamental economic contradictions may appear to the people as the strongest argument possible for restructuring the economic, social, and political orders...
...alienated at first by his tough military stance and appearance. Questions of the draft are particularly touchy. Asked if he would submit to the draft now, McCloskey said, "I don't know if I would go in now. Two years ago I would have said it is better to dissent after you have done your service. Now I believe you should do what your conscience dictates. It is hard for people my age to talk about the concept that someone would not want to serve. When I was young peopled used to fake their age to get in." McCloskey also...
...Bastion. The key to Krol's style is the big Archdiocese of Philadelphia, which is to the church what Mayor Daley's Chicago is to the Democratic Party: a bastion of strength and discipline in the midst of turmoil. Priestly dissent is rare. The huge parochial school system remains intact, with remarkably low tuitions (after Pennsylvania's grants to private schools were banned by the U.S. Supreme Court, the state legislature voted $47 million a year in "voucher" aid to parents of private school pupils). This fall Krol capped a decade of construction costing $120 million...