Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appalled to discover that TIME equates dissent with defection. Aren't the only real defectors from a democracy those who don't take a stand...
Only hint that a few South African whites were at all disturbed by apartheid came in the narrow victory of the Progressive Party's perky Mrs. Helen Suzman, who in the past five years has been the only voice of dissent in the South African Parliament. Supported by all major English-language papers and by gold-and-diamond Magnate Harry Oppenheimer, Mrs. Suzman carried her wealthy Johannesburg district by a bare 711 votes...
...three cases produced 14 opinions-a sure sign of how intensely the Justices had wrestled with their constitutional duty to guard freedom of speech and press even as they sought a way to suppress the smut before them. In hot dissent, Justices Hugo Black and " William O. Douglas urged the court for the umpteenth time to quit all censorship on the ground that the First Amendment protects all expression, including obscenity, that does not actually incite antisocial conduct. "Sex is a fact of life," declared the 80-year-old Black. "I find it difficult to see how talk about...
...five years for touting his periodical as erotic. But Ginzberg was not charged with salacious advertising; he was charged with publishing obscene material. The Court should not have affirmed the conviction by invoking an entirely new standard to decide the case. As Justice Potter Stewart said in a dissent, "Neither the statute under which Ginzberg was convicted nor any other Federal statute I know of makes 'commercial exploitation' or 'pandering' or 'titillation' a criminal offense...
Nadav Safran, associate professor of Government suggested the Speak-out. Its purpose, he said, was "to keep the fires of dissent and protest alive in America." It is definitely not to be a teach-in, a debate, or even a discussion, he added, asserting that people already have enough factual information about Vietnam...