Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diary of confidential conversations, and left. He saw Ike only a couple of more times-although he fired off several letters offering the President advice about how to run the world. At the beginning, Hughes says he had respected Ike: "Toward such a man. all kinds of dissent or doubt could conceivably be directed-except personal disrespect...
...golden boys sometimes overstep the bounds, and when they do the image of dissent is suddenly revealed for what it is. Last week Khrushchev denounced the elderly Ehrenburg for pleading for co-existence between socialist realism and Western art forms. "Whoever preaches the idea of peaceful coexistence of ideologies slides down to the positions of anticommunism" Krushchev declared, and added that Ehrenburg had committed a "gross ideological error...
...from all artists, nor perhaps should we want to. Dr. Zhivago will remain an immortal book in the West, but it is inconceivable that it will be read in Russia in the near future. Yevtushenko and Ehrenburg might be toadies, and we might often find them despicable. Yet their dissent, no matter how veiled, will reach the Russian people. And their relentless pressure for new freedoms, no matter how hesitant, can produce an occasional "thaw," can help create a climate that will allow the publication of such works...
...what kind of society they'd like to have instead. This is quite unlike the student radicals of the '30's who saw very clearly what they disliked in depression-ridden America. The immediacy and clarity of their problems--like finding a job or enough to eat--lent their dissent a tangible and invigorating quality. And too, many based their opinions on various forms of socialist and communist ideology...
...Schlesinger notes, however, there is an overall theme: much of contemporary left-wing dissent does find its origins in the fear that America and the entire world is not confronting "the implications of nuclear war." Men like Hughes, Riesman, and Roger Hagan, periodicals like The Nation, organizations like SANE and the Women's Strike for Peace, are all pre-eminently concerned with awakening a slumbering public to the evils of the Cold War and the Arms Race, and mobilizing them against the unseen, unnamed enemy...