Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Justice Hugo A. Black's dissent on the Supreme Court's decision upholding the conviction of Frank Wilkenson and Carl Braden for contempt of House Un-American Activities Committee...
...Faculty yesterday approved without dissent the extensive liberalization of the rules governing tutorial and the granting of the cum laude in General Studies...
After Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, 77, is the ranking German existentialist. Unlike Heidegger, who flirted briefly with the Nazis, Jaspers maintained a quiet but obstinate dissent. Ticketed for a concentration camp in 1945, he and his wife were saved by the U.S. Army's capture of Heidelberg. Though he tends to view Christianity less in orthodox terms than as a body of myth and symbols, Jaspers is a member of the Evangelical Church, and in 1946, in his book The Question of German Guilt, he bade Germans cross-examine their consciences on the war-guilt issue. Outspokenly independent...
...Expecting total success in marriage may be the cause of marriage failures." A good family should have some "discord and dissent." The principal also holds true for politics, where success can not be measured, Demos suggested. "We should not demand success where there can be none...
James Dalton Trumbo was born in Montrose, Colo.; his father was variously a shoe salesman and a beekeeper, his mother a Christian Scientist who did constant battle with the school board to make sure that no one vaccinated her son. "I was surrounded with the atmosphere of dissent," he remembers, with the air of a man who has used the story before to point his moral. "My Southern grandmother, burning with hateful memories of the Yankee invasion, dissented from the Union until she died. My grandfather joined with the dissent of the Populists, then with the dissent of Bryan...