Word: protestant
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...women of Athens withheld sex from their husbands until they stopped a ruinous war in Aristophanes’ play Lysistrata. Last night, the Athena Theater Company held a reading of the ribald anti-war play to protest possible American military action against Iraq...
While unions had planned to protest outside buildings with classrooms, students said they were not forced to cross actual picket lines, though some said they felt they did cross theoretical picket lines by simply entering Yale buildings for class...
These are not the people who flooded streets around the world recently to protest, nor those who brandished American flags at the Daytona 500. But their soft-spoken and almost reluctant misgivings--the kind that many other Americans expressed in an extensive new TIME/CNN poll--show how unsettled the country is by being asked to wage a kind of war it has never fought before, one launched against a country that has yet to attack the U.S. Such a war requires a new way of thinking about ourselves and poses a question that millions of Americans are now asking...
...It’s up to us, up to y’all, because you get the entertainment you want,” said Robinson. “If this has reached a level that it is really offensive to you, it’s incumbent upon you to protest...
John Cooper, a professor of ancient philosophy at Princeton and Rawls’ former student and colleague at Harvard, said he remembered Rawls as being the sole calm professor when students stormed university buildings during the tumultuous period of protest of the late 1960s...