Word: dissention
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...sometimes in turnaround), as each new generation reinvents the past according to its needs. That the governing board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, that most cautious of Hollywood institutions, would abandon the town's ruling narrative conventions and embrace historical indeterminacy by voting--without dissent or demur--to present this year's honorary Oscar to a proud, fragile, now almost silent old man named Elia Kazan is astonishing. And to some of its constituents, adherents of both the old and new left, shocking...
...while a long-time supporter of the deathpenalty, Blackmun wrote a passionate dissent inCallins vs. Collins in 1994, which decriedstate-mandated death sentences...
Strossen argued Blackmun's dissent will beviewed by legal historians like Justice John M.Harlan's lone dissent against segregation inPlessy vs. Ferguson...
...have no doubt that future generations willpick up this dissent," Strossen said...
...would like to commend the Crimson staff for their editorial "Balance the Board" (Opinion, Feb. 17) and respond to the corresponding dissent...