Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political mood of 1969 defies traditional definition. Yet one thing is clear: millions of Americans are prepared to vote their fear and anger rather than their hope and compassion. The words "law and order" have become an irresistible incantation, and what Political Analyst Richard Scammon calls the "anti-dissent dissent" is, for the moment, the strongest political force in the country...
...hustled off the stage after describing the commencement as "an obscenity"; 150 students promptly walked out of the assembly. More surprising was the fact that such instances of revolt were relatively rare. Across the nation, the awarding of degrees to graduating seniors was surprisingly placid, sentimental and traditional. Dissent was spoken of by student valedictorians, and by their elders receiving honorary degrees. But there was also a sense of nostalgia and guarded anticipation of the future -shadowed by the presence of the war in Viet Nam. Following is a firsthand report on the commencement spirit...
...spectrum of grandeur and dissent was the commencement at New York City's Herbert H. Lehman College, a newly constituted, tuition-free urban college in The Bronx, which celebrated its first graduation with a minimum of pomp. Lehman was awarding 1,281 baccalaureates, many of them to children of families only one or two generations in the U.S. Quietly, pridefully, parents and relatives took their places on folding chairs on the broad lawn, while a Berlioz march thundered from loudspeakers. Some women wore mink stoles; others were in frantically color-splashed pants suits. Folded Yiddish newspapers protruded from...
...Dissent was unmistakably present at the 268th commencement at Yale University. The scene in the historic Old Campus, though, reflected the school's profound respect for academic tradition, with varicolored academic robes and hats, the glittering mace of the university, heraldic flags, brassy fanfares and the gloomy crenellated battlements of old buildings visible beyond the tall elms. Mingling with the smell of fresh-cut lawns were whiffs of another kind of grass-pot. A few of the 2,420 robed graduates wore white armbands on their sleeves to protest the war and the draft, and two students held...
...given no chance to dispute her debt in court before her pay check was cut, she was deprived of her property without the processes guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. By a vote of 7 to 1, the Supreme Court agreed, although Justice Hugo Black, in an angry dissent, called the voiding of Wisconsin's law a "plain judicial usurpation of state legislative power." - In 1964, WGCB, a radio station in Red Lion, Pa., broadcast a right-wing preacher's attack on Fred J. Cook, a frequent contributor to the liberal weekly magazine, The Nation. When Cook...