Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This protection of the individual was an outgrowth of the inquisitions of ecclesiastical courts in England in the sixteenth century. It was a protest against tyranny, and Virginia made the Fifth part of the price of ratifying the Constitution because history has demonstrated that the need for the protection is abiding. And history has also demonstrated that, however this section of the amendment may be misused, its necessity to a free society remains paramount...
Avoiding Excesses. Simon's book drew a supporting protest from Nobel Prize-winning Roman Catholic Novelist Fran-gois Mauriac, followed by a solemn declaration signed by all French Catholic cardinals and archbishops warning "all those whose mission it is to protect persons and things" that "in the present crisis" they "have the obligation to respect human dignity and rigorously to avoid all excesses contrary to the law of nature...
...hard, finally, to isolate material from method, the world's violence from Williams' own, because of the garish orchestrating of his protest, the sheer fireworks of his pessimism. Talent as vivid as Williams' is often as lopsided; few highly personal visions of life are notably panoramic. What tells against Orpheus Descending is less something limited than something lurid; what vitiates the play, even as it animates it, is so canny a theater sense. It is the stage's melodrama, not the world's malevolence, that consistently wears its heartlessness on its sleeve...
...first student protest against the appointment of J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 as William James Lecturer resulted yesterday in a 13 page letter and memorandum to Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. '27, President of the Board of Overseers...
Ginn resigned from his position as class agent in protest over Oppenheimer's appointment. At that time he called him "a known Communist sympathizer and confessed liar in matters of espionage...