Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III came forth with one of the most balanced and accurate assessments of the confrontation. He did so at some risk to his political career, since any Democratic politician in the state defies Daley at his own peril. Said Stevenson: "In the Democratic convention, there was dissent and in it new hope for real change. But in Chicago, and in the Democratic party of Illinois that week, there was little room for dissent. Some 'revolutionaries' appeared on the scene, bent on provoking disorder, unwashed and for the most part unarmed. A small number of people...
...said Stevenson, "the city refused to accommodate dissent realistically. Doors to legitimate dissent and peaceable assembly were closed. They could have been welcomed to Chicago, the parks opened, the parade routes and television coverage arranged. And where would the agitators have been then-if Chicago had welcomed the kids instead of clubbing them? We would have had some violence, but much less...
...magnet of Western culture and trade-as it has already done in Czechoslovakia-must inevitably create a climate in which liberalization will be too great a temptation for the Communist countries to resist. This is particularly important now because the Russians themselves are being forced to admit that dissent is present-and growing-among the intelligentsia, who realize that the only way to a more efficient modern state is through greater freedom of ideas...
Academic freedom and freedom of speech have been making their appearance more and more often in the subordinate clauses of the rhetoric of 1968 ("Although our nation has always cherished the right of dissent, we cannot...") and unhappily Hoover's call to repression is not just the babble of one senile totem...
Responsibility Violated? The Cardinal also acted to stamp out dissent at Catholic University, of which he is the chancellor. At his behest, trustees of the university met last week, voted to investigate whether the 18 C.U. theologians who signed the anti-encyclical statement "have violated their responsibilities to the university." The dissenting faculty members may continue teaching, the trustees decreed, as long as they "agree to abstain for the period of the inquiry from any activities which are inconsistent with the pronouncements of the ordinary teaching authority established in the church-above all, that of the Holy Father." Teachers "unprepared...