Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest challenge any peacetime President ever gave the nation, and I don't think it's going to be as unpopular as the President says. He's in line with the underlying thinking of the people. The country wants leadership." Democratic Congressman Morris Udall likened some of the protest to imaginary congressional reaction on the day after Pearl Harbor: "You interviewed the Congressman from Detroit and he said, 'The Japanese attack was outrageous, but before we rush into war, let's see how it would affect the automobile industry.' And then somebody else said, 'It was dastardly, but consider...
...transportation was intermittent and road traffic virtually at a standstill as opponents of the government blocked intersections and pulled people from bicycles on their way to work. Even within government ranks, opposition began to surface. Pakistan's ambassadors to Greece and Spain, both retired military officers, resigned in protest. Air Marshal Abdur Rahim Khan, who had been Ambassador to Spain, warned that Bhutto could provoke "a true civil war." In Washington the State Department stopped a $68,000 shipment of tear gas, which had been widely used by Pakistani police in quelling disorders. Said a spokesman...
Grace M. Levin, a day-care worker at the Children's Community Day Care in Cambridge, said yesterday a group of 25 staged a sit-in at Sullivan's office to protest the center's closing. Sullivan refused to meet with the demonstrators...
...ways people in our culture continue to grow and negotiate their place in society through various forms of ritualized game-playing. He finally extends his discussion to military war games and the anti-war movement of the 1960s, and the brief glimpse it gave of the potential of ritualized protest for calling the status quo into question while at the same time boosting social solidarity. The books weaves together this series of essays and observations, from contemporary society to child psychology and back again. Erikson is not very systematic, but he offers many warm and challenging insights, often writing...
Construction of a new Biochemistry lab triggered the search for new Gen Ed offices, and the South House residence at 103 Walker Street was considered as a site until student protest mounted against the proposal...