Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College's AFROTC cadet staff decided yesterday not to protest its unit's dissolution, but instead, to help maintain "the efficiency" of its cadet corps...
Forthwith, Major General Charles Dasher, the U.S. commandant in Berlin, called on the Soviet commandant. Major General P. T. Dibrova, to protest the Volkspolizei's "lawless . . . ruffianism," and to say that of all the incidents in recent years, "I consider this the most serious." Dibrova replied that he could not accept the protest. Reason: East Germany is a sovereign state now; East Berlin is its capital, and no longer a Russian-occupied sector. Dibrova's statement was dutifully echoed by the East German official Communist newspaper Neues Deutschland, which condemned the West for taking refuge behind "nonexistent four...
Tumultuous Labors. "Why do I compose the way I do? Because it pleases me," says Varèse amiably, and will say no more. But there is evidence that Varèse writes that way as a protest. First there was his antimusical father to protest against, then (although his early work earned Debussy's admiration) an indifferent or hostile public. Again and again, his career ran into difficulties. Just as he was beginning to work on an opera with Librettist Hugo (Rosenkavalier) von Hofmannsthal...
...Using falcons to patrol airstrips. Rejected because bird lovers might protest...
Like 1954's announcement, the recent decree drew protest from both students and officers. Cadets are currently meeting in Shannon Hall, to draw up a request asking the Pentagon to rescind the order. I their petition is to have any effect in Washington, it will require official University endorsement. The University should grant this, not only out of consideration for its own students, but also from concern for the national defense policy. And if the College can make any contribution to this policy, the Air Force should consider its move and keep AFROTC at Harvard...