Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another area of policy dissent is the lesbian issue. For years, men automatically shrugged off demands for female equality by labeling complainants "nothing but lesbians." The charge is manifestly unfair?a "lavender herring" at best, as Author Susan Brownmiller notes ?but women in the movement are supersensitive about the issue. So much so, in fact, that many lesbians have split from the movement to "combat," as Lois Hart wrote to the New York Times, "oppression at the hands of their straight sisters. They bravely talk about liberating themselves from dehumanizing sexual-role definitions, but then employ the same odious...
...More important, Joe Rhodes believes that disorder on campus is only a part of the country's cultural upheaval, and it is to this problem that he intends to speak. "I'm not interested," he says, "in finding ways to solve campus unrest if that means damping out student dissent. My ultimate goal is to tell the President in no uncertain terms what can be done to save lives this fall." He means throughout the country, not just on the campus. "We're like a vast system only a few millimeters from building up to its explosive point...
...Neill's children have converted him on other issues: against the SST, for the 18-year-old vote. He blasts campus violence as a sure way to anger Middle America, a theme he pounds in campus speeches. But rational dissent is something else: "There is no comparison with the knowledge of this generation and that of my own at that...
...report was the beginning of a wave of dissent that spread among many scientists in the atomic laboratories and executives in the Government after the Alamogordo test on July 16 demonstrated what the Bomb could do. Some dissenters demanded that the enemy be warned; critics of this course objected that Allied prisoners might be placed in the target area. Still others proposed demonstrations of various kinds-perhaps before an international inspection group, or as Physicist Edward Teller seems to have suggested offhandedly, a highly visible burst right on the Emperor's front porch, in Tokyo...
Erwin cannot, for instance, abide student dissent, even the relatively bland variety found in the American Southwest. He is convinced that the survival of public universities is at stake, a feeling that many other citizens share. In the past four months, he has engineered the abrupt departures of six administrators, including Chancellor Harry Ransom and President (Austin campus) Norman Hackerman-both of whom, it is thought, were too soft on student militancy to suit Erwin. The latest casualty: Dr. John R. Silber, 43, one of the country's leading philosophers, who was fired as dean of the College...