Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case did the Supreme Court issue any further guidelines about what it considers to be constitutional reapportionment. This fact was caustically noted by Justice John Marshall Harlan in a dissent to the New York decision. Wrote Harlan, who had also dissented to the original one-man, one-vote ruling: "I am wholly at a loss to understand the Court's casual way of disposing of this matter. The Court should be willing to face up articulately to these difficult problems which have followed as a not unnatural aftermath of its reapportionment decisions of last term. These matters bristle with...
...function in groups, a passion for obedience. In his book This Germany, Journalist Rudolf Walter Leonhardt doubts that the past could repeat itself or "that Germans may go insane in the same way twice," but he fears that his countrymen still have a hankering to find scapegoats and suppress dissent. The most controversial current book is titled Training for Disobedience in Germany, by Sociologist Ulrich Sonnemann, who calls for "a humanization of the German attitude." To achieve a new identity, he says, the German must learn "disobedience" and join in a revolution "against institutionalized souls...
Hornbake charged that S.F.U. was promoting "dissent for dissent's sake." Other students thought so too. Proclaiming himself the "Supreme Defender of Tranquillity," Sophomore Warren Lewis organized the Collegiate Anti-Protest Organization Group to protest the protesters. CAPOG pickets turned up at meetings of the protest groups with signs reading PROGRESS THROUGH SANITY and VOUS NOUS DÉGOÛTEZ (You make us sick...
Viet Nam. Assent & Dissent...
...appear right went to ludicrous lengths. The morning of November 1 the embassy reported to Washington a coup would occur that afternoon by that the military intelligence did not agree. The coup occurred. Later in the afternoon an officer called the embassy and asked that the military statement of dissent be stricken. As Halberstam notes in another context, Westerners are very sensitive about losing face...