Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue that summed up the major policy question of the campaign: Should a peace candidacy be waged in traditional political terms--babies, handshaking, and splashy but meaningless posters--or as a departure from establishment politics, as a campaign of dissent...
...also nailed down a plank denouncing the John Birch Society. "A Republican Party that plays footsie with the Birch Society and the radical right," said Gengras, "cannot win and does not deserve to win." The vociferous minority who supported Barry Goldwater in 1964 went along without a murmur of dissent...
Horrendous Results. Little of Warren's argument impressed Justice John Marshall Harlan, who was joined by Byron White, Potter Stewart and Tom Clark in dissent. Reddening with anger and pounding his fist on the desk before him, Harlan accused the majority of peddling "poor constitutional law," which promised "harmful consequences for the country at large." During 25 years, said Harlan, "the court has developed an elaborate, sophisticated and sensitive approach to admissibility of confessions." To replace that "totality of circumstances" doctrine with hard and fast rules based on the Fifth Amendment seemed to Harlan downright silly. Cops...
...Dissent. Koningsberger found the people looking well fed and clothed. Shops seemed well stocked; there was no "atmosphere of scarcity," despite contradictory evidence of rationed rice and cloth. No "blue ants slaving away" -except for the familiar "drag coolies" hauling inhuman loads of coal and pig iron. No beggars anywhere, no flies even on manure heaps. The countryside appeared to be the immemorial land of the peasant-few motor highways, trucks or tractors but plenty of human feet treadling water wheels. Soldiers with guns nowhere to be seen. In short, "the daily comings and goings of the people look terribly...
...course," concedes Koningsberger, "people are not free to talk." Nor do "voices of dissent" have a chance. Yes, there is brainwashing, but a nurse and a doctor told him that brainwashing makes an intellectual "happier afterward." Officials can be truculent and exasperatingly self-righteous about their government's policies, but this is "only the wrapping of China...