Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nothing else the expression of scorn (if it was that: the musical's title indicates parody) for what others hold sacred. The "sacred" is a function of the collective consciousness; as such it is bound at intervals to fall into decay and to be visited with expressions of collective dissent, like vulgar satire...
...most critical business of education today is to become a center of dissent and resistance in itself, and an interpreter of such behavior to the public," Mullaney says in the article...
ALTHOUGH the government finally released the principal student leaders on October 5 (as many as a thousand activists are reportedly still being held), this move did little to quell the dissent. For the students, together with a wide range of broadly-based interest groups, focused their attention on a grievance which they all have in common: the War. On October 11, the Student Committee for Human Rights- together with the Committee of Women's Action for the Right to Live, the National Movement for Self-Determination, and the High School Teachers Organization- organized a conference of more than 1000 delegates...
TEDIUM. The era of massive student dissent is now in its sixth year. Few movements can long sustain such an emotional pitch and tension. This fall, students are tired or frustrated or both; they are aware that some problems cannot be solved overnight. CAMBODIA/KENT STATE. The protests last May unified moderate students, who until then had been a kind of silent majority. This had the effect of isolating the radicals, who, in the absence of a restraining force, had previously operated as the vanguard of the student movement. Cambodia/Kent State also opened new lines of communication within universities...
...Justices brushed aside the effort of Massachusetts to bring the suit directly before them. The court majority apparently was swayed by Government arguments that Massachusetts lacked standing to bring suit on behalf of its citizens and that the issues involved too many potential political repercussions. In a passionate dissent, Justice William Douglas assailed the notion that the question was too political for the court to handle. Said Douglas: "The question of an unconstitutional war is neither academic nor 'political...