Word: dissents
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Both the warning in the publication, the HLS Adviser, and the letter to the 119 students, have raised charges from law students that the administration is trying to chill political dissent on campus. They charge, in addition, that both actions are unconstitutional and inconsistent with the principles taught in the Law School's classrooms...
Douglas M. Hagerman, a third-year Law student, has written a letter to the Ad Board and Law School Dean of Students Mary D. Upton saying the warning "blatantly attempts to silence campus dissent on the divestiture issue which is totally inconsistent with the constitutional principles taught in the HLS classrooms...
When he remarks, for example, that he and his colleagues are "quite exacting and self-critical," is there the faintest suggestion of dissent in the Politburo and perhaps of shuffles soon to come? He teases the Reagan Administration about how it should "deal us yet another propaganda blow, say, by suspending the development of one of your new strategic missiles. And we would respond with the same kind of 'propaganda.' " Is that a veiled offer to scrap the U.S.S.R.'s threatening new multiple-warhead ICBM, the SS-24, in exchange for cancellation of the American...
Although Fowles is an atheist, the "tender sympathy" for the Shakers that underlies A Maggot is not as unlikely as it seems, for the author is drawn to all forms of dissent, whatever the orthodoxy. Although a novelist of established eminence, he chooses to be "unconnected" to conventional literary life: "I don't know other writers or read any literary magazines. I hate reviewing. I don't lecture or give readings. The novel is a print medium, meant to come through the eyes, not the ears. All that readings show you is whether the novelist is a good actor...
Shish kebabs and steaks arrived quickly, along with watermelon and cans of Pepsi-Cola. "This is not our normal fare," muttered Tom Cullins of Vermont. Said another: "We lived on bread and water our first five days." There was a chorus of dissent. "Come off it," said a hostage, "it was better than that." The main complaint: their captors continually woke them up at ungodly hours to discuss the situation...