Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MINNESOTA THEATER COMPANY, Minneapolis. The three opening productions, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, John Arden's study of political dissent, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, and The Master Builder, Henrik Ibsen's treatise on creative genius, rotate through August. Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui opens Aug. 6, and Merton of the Movies, by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly, joins the repertory Sept...
...supporters are not all bigots, although all but three of his 14 sponsors in Massachusetts are John Birch Society members. Wallace sympathizers are full of frustration, nostalgia and fear, bypassed or assailed by currents sweeping the country: dissent, Black Power, "coddling" of suspected criminals, social-welfare legislation, higher taxes. Whether or not he can translate this into votes, there is no doubt that Wallace is waging a savvy and effectual campaign...
...convening was the climax of a week of ominous moves against the Czechoslovaks. It was also proof of an increasingly apparent fact: however tolerant it may seem to be in its relations with other Communist states-and in spite of considerable liberalization at home-Russia still cannot abide real dissent or genuine expressions of freedom...
Only a few months ago, such scenes would have been almost unthinkable in Czechoslovakia, where questioning and dissent were rigidly suppressed by the strict, doctrinaire regime of Antonín Novotnŷ. Today, under the new reforms of Alexander Dubček, they are commonplace. Life in Czechoslovakia rings with the sounds of freedom. Despite a constant threat of reprisals from the Soviet Union, the political change has not only transformed public life but worked a captivating magic on the people's mood. It has made Czechoslovakia the most contagiously exciting country in Eastern Europe-and perhaps...
...days when student dissent took milder forms than it does now and the Death of God had not yet been widely announced, small groups of seminarians from fundamentalist Wheaton College used to appear at the edge of a 40-acre estate on the outskirts of Wheaton, Ill. They would kneel briefly in prayer and then scurry nervously away. Thirty years ago, it was an act that took courage: the estate had become headquarters of the Theosophical Society in America, a mysterious non-Christian movement often suspected of being more occult than cult. Praying for the souls of the benighted Theosophists...