Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...facts and rumors surrounding this ordeal have led to the assumption, widely held, that Lawrence was homosexual. Editor Malcolm Brown, the co-author of an earlier biographical study of Lawrence, strongly disagrees, and the evidence of the letters supports his dissent. Lawrence repeatedly expressed his abhorrence of physical contact with any fellow creature, female or male. He puzzled over fairly basic questions: "The period of enjoyment, in sex, seems to me a very doubtful one. I've asked the fellows in this hut (three or four go with women regularly). They are not sure: but they...
...before Thursday's protest, there was every indication that the government was ready to crush even the smallest sprig of dissent. On Tuesday Premier Li Peng and President Yang Shangkun reportedly informed Deng that the movement had spread "to high schools, the countryside and even among the workers." Deng, whose sole official government title is Chairman of the Central Military Commission but whose ironhanded control of the government has led the students to dub him the "Emperor," agreed that the protesters intended to overthrow the Communist Party. Referring to the turmoil that has accompanied political reform elsewhere in the socialist...
AFTER insuring that dissent would not be tolerated, the moderator of the rally showed clearly why the New Left--as a national movement--failed to win the support of most Americans--and eventually collapsed...
...Undergraduate Council should be taken more seriously by everyone, but quashing new groups in order to bolster the Council is not the right way to go about it. Any group should be free to pursue a goal more vigorously than the Council chooses to or to dissent loudly from the Council's position...
...Everyone has one vote," Truong said. "If thereis a single dissent, HUSO would not release astatement using the group's name...