Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, was among the voices of dissent that opposed the resigned acceptance of most of Cambridge. He deplored the entire concept of treating international relations like an automobile race. "In a game of 'chicken,' the relative speed of the two cars, or even how loud their horns are, doesn't make much difference...
...Tutting the Pope. The magazine's brief life has been punctuated by thunderclaps of dissent. Recently, Buckley, who is a Roman Catholic, challenged the papal encyclical Mater et Magistra. This letter from Pope John XXIII to his bishops advocated a measure of "socialization," i.e., government planning and welfare programs, and urged bishops to accommodate to the trend. The Review promptly took the Vatican to task, describing the encyclical as "a venture in triviality...
...March issue of Advance, entitled "Revise and Dissent," attacks the Republican leadership in Congress for conducting "a holding operation." It is particularly critical of Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-Ill.) and Rep. Charles Halleck...
While the U.S. continued its support of the U.N.-President Kennedy last week even decided to recommend that the U.S. purchase half the U.N.'s $200 million bond issue to keep it solvent-sharp words of dissent came from Britain. Foreign Secretary Lord Home bluntly criticized both the U.N. and many of its members for policies that, as he sees it, can destroy peace, not preserve...
...Representatives and policy officials with a well-argued minority view on the question of disarmament. The Cold War has long choked debate on this issue. While those with a vested interest in the existing military competition have promoted it through effective means (lobbying, public relations programs, political pressure), qualified dissent has gone unpublicized. People who have found the unilateralists politically irresponsible in calling for an immediate and absolute resolution of the nuclear threat, but who could not accept the program of the arms race lobbyists, have had little political influence. Tocsin may speak for much of this group, particularly...