Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Atmosphere of Dissent. At 55, the once-flaming Trumbo appears quiet, gentle and humorous. But peering through black-rimmed glasses and speaking through a thickly tufted white mustache, he rarely answers questions except with a speech, and anything will set him off. "I have looked at many American faces," he improvised for an interviewer last week. "I've seen them as flak burst around them 9,000 ft. over Japan and in a slit trench on Okinawa watching the night sky to see where the next bomb would fall. I have seen American faces in a Congregational Church...
...list of welcome changes does not end here. Attorney-General Wyman has rejected another term after his present one ends on Friday. For the last seven years he has used the power of his office and of public opinion to persecute dissent in a manner not only contemptuous of civil liberties but also amusingly destructive of New Hampshire's favorite shibboleth: meddlesome government is evil. That adage seems a ludicrous antique...
...Louisiana law requiring the N.A.A.C.P. to reveal its membership lists. Last year, serving on a special three-judge federal court, Wisdom defended the legality of the Civil Rights Commission's investigative procedures, although the other two judges voted against him. The Supreme Court later upheld Wisdom's dissent...
Basil Kingsley Martin has been stirring such steam-heated passion since he became the Statesman's editor in 1931. He made it Britain's leading organ of dissent, with a circulation of 80,038-nearly twice that of its competitor, the Spectator (42,453). Now, after an uncharacteristically mild valedictory ("Thirty years at an office desk seems long enough"), Kingsley Martin, 63, is taking a new title-editorial director-and a new assignment as the Statesman's roving foreign correspondent. His chosen successor as editor: Assistant Editor John Freeman...
...other business the Council voted without dissent to create a committee under the jurisdiction of its Extra-Curricular Affairs Committee "to reinaugurate a study of Harvard drama with particular reference to the situation as changed by the Loeb Drama Center...