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...thesis of this protest-placard of a book is that the time has come for man to stop tugging his forelock before the nonexistent authorities of the universe and openly admit that he will not settle for anything less than divine everlasting life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sit-In on Olympus | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...crowd of about 50 students had gathered outside Lehman when Russell S. Carr, manager of Dudley House Dining Hall, jostled Rossman, kicked his placard down the stairs, and ordered him off University property. (Harvard rules forbid vending on campus). When Rossman refused to withdraw, Carr attempted to confiscate his box of about a dozen yogurt cartoons. Rossman demanded remuneration, and Carr retreated to call the University police...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Yogurt Price Protester Is Arrested | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

Apologize Now. The stumbler in the campaign is the G.O.P. vice-presidential candidate, Maryland's Governor Spiro Agnew. He has committed so many errors, in fact, that a picket greeted him in Washington last week with a placard reading: APOLOGIZE NOW, SPIRO. IT WILL SAVE TIME LATER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Campaign: The Sleeper v. the Stumbler | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...Humphrey became remarkably like him in his desire to please everybody, his ambivalence, his addiction to hyperbole, his fidelity to the power blocs of the old politics (big labor, Southern Democrats, the surviving bosses and the elderly). He also became vulnerable to the kind of accusation emblazoned on a placard in Chicago last week: "There are two sides to every question; Humphrey endorses both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE MAN WHO WOULD RECAPTURE YOUTH | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

...student insurrection at Columbia this past week cannot be labelled a simple exercise in hoodlumism. The demonstrators succeeded in raising (and perhaps resolving) a major issue of University-community relations, and it is not at all clear that any amount of the peaceful placard carrying which critics of the protest advocate would have had this effect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columbia's Protest | 4/29/1968 | See Source »

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