Word: protestant
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...Back then, after a week-long fast in 1976 on the chilly summit of Hobart's Mount Wellington to protest against the visit of an American nuclear warship, Brown had a growing profile in Tasmania as a slightly eccentric, shy but deeply earnest young man. At Liffey he tried to write philosophy and "put forward ideas for a better world," but spent many days on this same verandah, in his overcoat as the snow fell around the cottage, despairing "that it was all too much...
...part of the decision-making process is much more enjoyable than being sidelined and feeling powerless and depressed." His grandfather, father, twin sister Janice and two brothers may have been country police officers, but it was Brown's role, and arrest along with 1,500 others, in the protest blockade to save the Franklin River in 1982-83 that made him a national name. Still an unpolished orator, he learned then that being terrified of public speaking didn't always matter. "People will listen much more carefully if there's a hint of nervousness in what you're saying...
...Prime Minister John Anderson described them, communist. Brown shrugs off such attacks as proof of the Greens' growing influence, as he did the outrage that followed his interjection, along with fellow Greens senator Kerry Nettle, during President George W. Bush's address to federal parliament last year with a protest about the Australian detainees at Guant?namo...
Dylan, who turned 63 in May, rose to prominence in the early 1960s for his poetic protest songs, such as “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “The Times They Are A-Changin,” and distinctive nasal voice and folk guitar strumming...
Dylan angered many early fans—but ultimately garnered even more acclaim—by going electric, largely abandoning social protest music to embrace a variety of more pop-oriented styles after...