Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Author! Author!" [March 17], on dissenting writers in Communist countries, is an illuminating report on a significant development in the political and cultural climate of the post-Stalin era. Besides this cultural protest, there exists also an ecclesiastical dissent, particularly evident in the Russian Orthodox Church and among the Baptists in the Soviet Union...
...other Communist cultural periodicals in Czechoslovakia have been recently subjected to rather violent attacks by Communist leaders in Rude Pravo (Red Justice), daily organ of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. The tone of these critical remarks indicates that the party is not yet ready to accept either the dissent of intelligentsia or any far-reachine; dialogues between Christians and Marxists. The ghost of Stalin is still around...
...same time a social and political conservative, wedded to the ideals of feudal society. A limpid preacher of God's majesty and transcendence, he was capable of a four-letter grossness of language. He was the archetype of individual Christian assertion; yet he could be brutally intolerant of dissent, and acquiesced in the suppression of those he considered heretics. Prayerful and beer-loving, sensual and austere, he was the least saintly, but most human, of saints...
Hatfield drew two standing ovations from a Lowell Lecture Hall crowd of 300, about half of whom were Harvard Republican Club members. The club presented him its "Republican Man of the Year" award for 1966 before his speech because of his "responsible dissent" from administration Vietnam policy...
...draft may not be used to stifle dissent. So ruled the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit four weeks ago. But, added Judge Harold Medina, it is still a crime to evade the draft. And the Viet Nam war, in addition to provoking peacenik protesters, has also increased the number of plain draft dodgers. In 1964, 144 men were jailed on draft-dodging charges for an average of 21 months. Last year the number jumped to 266, and the average sentence was 26 months...