Word: dissenters
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...March 21, several senior deans of the Harvard University administration informed the OFA that construction of the new dance center would begin over undergraduate Spring Break, still without air conditioning. However, after weeks of vocal dissent from the student committee, Dance Program administrators, and OFA staff, the [finance offices of] the Faculty of Arts and Sciences finally agreed to put air conditioning back into the construction plans. Bergmann, Larson, Weiss, and Hilby received this information last Tuesday morning, to the delight of my fellow dancers...
...about illegal demonstrations and military crackdowns. With her husband, photographer Tomasz Tomaszewski, she chronicled the darkest days of martial law, smuggling her diaries (written under a pseudonym) and photos of tanks in the streets out of the country to a world hungry for news of Poland's awakening dissent. Later, in 1989, she was appointed spokeswoman for the government of Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Poland's first democratically elected Prime Minister. Niezabitowska's charisma and no-nonsense demeanor stood in marked contrast to the colorless apparatchiks who had given up power just a few months before. It was no fluke that Niezabitowska...
...difficulty in proving whether such novels are implicitly pro-Nazi or anti-Nazi, Ryan admitted, is that under Nazism no explicit literary dissent in Germany was possible. Authors instead could either physically exile themselves or undergo “inner emigration,” a retreat into one’s own artistic world to combat the horrors of the world without. Modern readers must judge the validity of many authors’ post-war claims that their work under Hitler contained subtexts of anti-Nazi dissent, even when the texts themselves suggest otherwise...
...revolutionary goals included literacy in academia and art, and the many art schools have turned it into one of the most artistically “overeducated, undermanifested” populations, Kennedy explains. She continued that these art schools offer classical training which becomes the vocabulary for political dissent...
Though Matory’s motion is first on the docket, Skocpol’s milder one, submitted after Matory went public with his motion, could allow the Faculty to register formal dissent even if Matory’s motion fails...