Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best-regulated societies, Great Britain is currently undergoing a spate of court cases over obscenity in books. Last week seven of the nation's bestselling authors (including Somerset Maugham, Bertrand Russell and J. B. Priestley) took recourse to that most British of responses: a joint letter of protest to the editor of the London Times. "It would be disastrous to English literature," they wrote, "if authors had to write under the shadow of the Old Bailey if they failed to produce works suitable for the teen-ager...
Fiery cheerleader, Peter T. Lurch immediately suggested a male and female protest meeting at President's Dodd's House, but most students contacted thought the best thing to do would be to head for New York...
...special protest committee took his case to the faculty, to the Deans, and finally to the trustees, trying to make them reverse their decision. But the protests were unsuccessful and Heath left...
While these appeals went on, Princeton's campus heard four months of name-calling, read protest letters in the Daily Princetonian, and generally misunderstood the issues. Those who know the 37-year-old Heath claimed that Nassau Hall fired him because of his criticism against faculty-student relations. Others less emotionally involved with the man believe he had completed his work and felt like moving on. Whatever the reason, however, it is fact that Heath was not appointed to an assistant professorship, and according to Princeton regulations, had to leave...
...memorable Evanston conference TIME, Sept. 13), the World Council of Churches solemnly enjoined Christians in all lands to protest against racial discrimination as "an unutterable offense against God." Last week in South Africa, where discrimination is practiced in God's name, Christians bravely obeyed...