Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Immortal Inspirers. Actually, the Pre-Raphaelites did not see themselves as holding back the clock. They were rather a band of rebels in a century abristle with dissent. Three young Englishmen founded the movement in 1848, a year of social revolution throughout Europe, eleven years after Constable's death: William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, none over 21 years...
...many top leftist trade union leaders, whom he charged with planning a general strike lu support of the mutiny. He forbade distribution of the Aga Khan's Nairobi-based newspaper, the Nation, which had reported accurately but too zealously the near-toppling of the government. To lessen potential dissent, he replaced British army commanders with Africans. At the same time, he appointed a commission to consider constitutional changes that would make Tanganyika "a democratic one-party state" in law as well as fact...
Many Americans will share Durant's broad indignation, many will dissent from it. But one of the remarkable facts is that there is much less indignation in the churches today-at least as far as sexual morality goes. The watchword is to be positive, to stress the New Testament's values of faith, hope and charity rather than the prohibitions of the Commandments...
Christmas dinner for the poor, to most American charities, is turkey army style, some nice wholesome oranges, and above all, no booze. From this proposition Chicago's Roman Catholic Little Brothers of the Poor dissent in every respect, except that the main dish must be traditional. Last week they started their dinner for 350 of the city's aged and indigent by serving hot rum punch. They embellished the meal itself with lobster salad, cake, and compote of fruit flambé, expertly cooked by the Little Brothers. They served French champagne, and the 117 dozen roses used...
...concern itself with mere questions of fact that had been reviewed already by lower courts. All through the '30s, Justice Louis Brandeis had maintained that position. In 1957 Justice Frankfurter's impatience boiled up, and he refused to participate in any more such cases. In an angry dissent on the ice cream case and three others, he said: "The Court may or may not be 'doing justice' in the four insignificant cases it decided today; it certainly is doing injustice to the significant and important cases on the calendar and to its own role...