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Word: dissents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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More seriously, the novel documents the assimilation of whole radical movements into impotent forms of institutionalized dissent. The various peace and ban-the bomb movements become so large they are powerless. In the midst of self-satisfied, ineffectual dissenters, one baffled American...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Will to (Still) Believe | 8/5/1969 | See Source »

...teaching of sciences and created the rank of "distinguished professor," a device that allows the university to exceed authorized salaries to attract better teachers. Taking a strong stand against segregation, he has worked to increase black enrollment (103 out of 6,000). He shows a thoughtful understanding of student dissent and told a group of Memphis businessmen this year that sending in police is bad because it drives uncommitted students to support radicals. Heard urges instead that college administration mistakes be rectified and that the nation "get on with solving the problems our children are so sensitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Columbia's Choice | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...Viet Nam doves: "Everyone is entitled to his position, but we need unity as well as division. Dissent is one thing but division is another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Political Notes: Chairman Daley's Maxims | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...Spock and Harvard Graduate Student Michael Ferber on charges that they conspired to aid, abet and counsel draft registrants to violate the Selective Service law. Author Mitchell Goodman and Yale Chaplain the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, who were convicted on the same conspiracy charges, were granted retrials. From the dissenters' view point, however, the cases had been won for entirely the wrong reasons. Their right to unrestrained dissent was not reaffirmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Dissent and Dr. Spock | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...guarantees of free speech. Arthur J. Goldberg, former As sociate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, based his argument against the convictions on this principle. He contended that the Government's attempt to prove "conspiracy" against the four protesters was based on public, not secret, expressions of dissent against the draft and the war. "The First Amend-ment," argued Godberg, "prohibits conditions on any such basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Dissent and Dr. Spock | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

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