Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dissent from the Bench
...pervasive agent of domination over the individual. Modern technology, which should be used to free man from oppressive work, Marcuse argues, has overreached itself, turned wasteful and created a massive fusion of interlocking military, corporate and political interests. As a result, he says, the normal channels of protest and dissent are rendered impotent...
...problem with riots are first, that they get black people killed and secondly, that they are not politically instrumental. The same people who are involved in riots aren't around for political organization later. But how can I condemn riots when they happen to be the only form of dissent black people have to protest the estranged position they hold in this society...
...since Euripides was hounded out of Athens for the Hellenic equivalent of sedition have the poets of a nation been so busy on all fronts preaching dissent to national policy. Last week even the cultural coziness of the National Book Awards presentations in Manhattan was chilled by a poet's jeremiad against U.S. involvement in Viet...
...Moses as he demonstrates against the pharaoh, who is "discriminating against us just because we've got long hair, beards and wear sandals." Rowan: "Gee, I can't imagine anyone feeling that way. How is it going?" Moses: "Badly! The pharaoh says it's O.K. to dissent so long as you don't disagree with him. It's hard to argue with a man who thinks he's descended from God." Rowan: "We have somewhat the same problem where I come from. Do the police bother you?" Moses: "Yes. We are harassed...