Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read the record of the debate that preceded passage of the 1866 bill, the court was persuaded that legislators of the time were well aware of the law's broad implications. Still, said Justice John Harlan in dissent, 100 years ago few legislators really contemplated as much reach as the court has found in the act: "The individualistic ethic of their time emphasized personal freedom and embodied a distaste for governmental interference. It seems to me that most of these men would have regarded it as a great intrusion on individual liberty for the government to take from...
Place of Confrontation. Exercising sanctuary privileges will, at best, only delay the inexorable law. Yet many clergymen are delighted with the opportunity to use their houses of worship in what they feel is an openly defiant way of supporting dissent. Roman Catholic Monsignor George W. Casey of St. Brigid's Church in Boston says that he finds some comfort in the fact that draft resisters-most of them nonreligious-have sought the church "as a place of confrontation. Church has been fading from the sight of young America. We hear the word 'irrelevant' so often it makes...
...weep for Bobby Kennedy, for Martin Luther King, for the young men in Viet Nam, for the poor, for President Johnson and those others who today bear such heavy burdens and who, while still living, suffer character assassination. Or to weep for those of us who mistake anarchy for dissent and free speech or violence for justice...
...there in the press, some commentators used the assassination as a weapon in their continuing ideological warfare. On the right, William Loeb, publisher of the Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader, said in so many words that Bobby brought it on himself. The Kennedys, he wrote in an editorial, encouraged dissent and disorder. "Class was set against class, group against faction, race against race. Was it not Senator Kennedy who himself assured the rioting, burning Negro mobs that they had every right to 'regard the law as their enemy'?" On the left, the Village Voice's Jack Newfield...
...their quest for power, West Germany's Social Democrats have depended for nearly two decades on the guidance of Herbert Wehner, a brusque, brilliant tactician whose devotion to the Socialist cause is equaled only by his towering rage at any dissent within his party. Second in the hierarchy after Party Leader Willy Brandt, Wehner formulated the policy that has shaped the party's destiny, including the decision to join the rival Christian Democrats in West Germany's historic Grand Coalition. Last week, in a move that was certain to have profound effects not only on the party...