Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concerned South African citizen, I would like to record my protest against the recent spate of bannings and detentions. I would also like to protest, however, against foreign interference in our affairs. Because of its double standards, it is more destructive than constructive and will only serve to extend this government further...
...there are to be any reforms in the near future, they will be "filtered through," one or two at a time, as a Vorster associate puts it. The job reservation laws, which restrict certain work categories to whites, may be scrapped. The Bantu education system, the subject of violent protest by black students in the past 18 months, will almost certainly be revised. Integration of sports-increasingly acceptable to whites, if largely irrelevant to black aspirations-may be expanded...
...Thousand Clowns confronts this poignant process of learning to compromise, but does so without losing its sense of humor. Murray Burns (George Miller), its rebellious and endearing hero, is an unemployed scriptwriter sickened by the necessity to toady to an imbecilic boss. He conducts a one-man protest against hypocrisy and convention, cultivating an air of lunacy to satirize and condemn the emptiness of those who relinquish their freedom for security. Murray holds spirited conversations with the Weather Lady, warning her not to repeat herself, thinks nothing of taking trips to the Statue of Liberty, and habitually admonishes his unheeding...
Caldicott outlined a program for mobilizing Americans against nuclear energy and nuclear bombs, which would include monthly protest marches, a massive publicity campaign and teach-ins at colleges, high-schools and churches...
Charles P. Whitlock, associate dean for special projects, said yesterday that the council may talk with some of the students who participated in a 1972 takeover of Massachusetts Hall in protest of Harvard's investments in the Gulf...