Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnam and their roles in this democracy, the failure of most of the Scholars to consider how they can best express their opinions and whether it is worth the bother. And these are in turn part of the failure of American attitudes and institutions to accommodate--let alone encourage--dissent. In view of this, it is important to mention the individual actions inspired by the appeal--that Jacquelyn Evans and George Cave returned their medallions, that I wrote to President Johnson and the Times, that perhaps other Scholars have acted of whose behavior we three are unaware...
There is, of course, plenty of dissent from that view. Tolstoy failed to find opera godlike; in fact he found it downright godless. In his essay What Is Art? he gives a withering description of an opera rehearsal and rants against the absurdities he found onstage: "What they were doing was unlike anything on earth except other operas. People do not converse in such a way as recitative, and do not place themselves at fixed distances, in a quartet, waving their arms to express their emotions." In a similar vein, Dr. Johnson called opera "an exotic and irrational entertainment...
Exploratory Evidence. In sharp dissent, Judge Reuben Oppenheimer insisted that the defense was entitled to the benefit of that speculation. His brethren wrongly "put themselves in the place of the triers of fact," he said, and ignored the rule that extra care for due process is required in capital cases. When life is at stake, declared Judge Oppenheimer, citing several Supreme Court decisions to bolster his argument, elementary fairness demands full disclosure and cross-examination so that the jury itself may decide whether evidence is exculpatory. Though it failed to carry his court, Judge Oppenheimer's dissent may prove...
...claims that "anywhere from one-third to one-half of the United Presbyterian members" will defect from the church if the Confession is approved. That hardly seems likely, but there is some evidence for the charge by Executive Editor Nelson Bell of the conservative Protestant biweekly Christianity Today that "dissent will reach into almost every presbytery." Already, members of churches in Pittsburgh, Peoria and San Jose, Calif., have gone on record as opposing the Confession in its present form. In Seattle, the Rev. David Brittain of Foster-Tukwila Presbyterian Church fears that one-fourth of the city...
...sharp dissent, Chief Judge Charles S. Desmond argued that "no court is licensed to write a new state policy, however attractive or convenient." He backed legislative change only. Even more sharply, Judge John F. Scileppi argued that the majority's logic would lead inevitably to approval of mailorder Mexican divorces-a not inconceivable possibility, considering the fact that Rosenstiel, in effect, gives New York two divorce laws, one for those who can afford to fly to Mexico, and one for those who cannot...