Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party assembled last week in Blackpool for its annual conference, the union men were in an angry, rebellious mood over Wilson's tough wage-restraint policies. Said Frank Cousins, boss of the huge Transport and General Workers union, who quit the Cabinet 15 months ago to protest the deflationary measures: "We are almost at the stage of accepting that the workers are on one side and this government is on the other...
...broken-horned bull facing a top-ranking torero. She was, after all, the Duchess of Medina Sidonia, three times a grandee of Spain, and she had proved herself a troublesome opponent in the past. In 1967, she was arrested for her role in organizing a farmers' protest march to demand additional U.S. compensation for damages suffered when three U.S. nuclear bombs accidentally fell near Palomares. This time, the problem centered on an explosive novel that she had written called The Strike. After a year of contention, the case reached its climax last week-with a notable victory...
...play has the aspect of a minor saga, but Edwin Sherin has directed it like a stampede: all decibels and no deftness. Either everyone shouts, or everyone postures in animated tableaux that look like posters left over from some social-protest movement of the '30s. Ostensibly pro-Negro, the play peculiarly caters to the stereotyped image of the Negro as forever singing, dancing, fighting, drinking and wenching. As for the question of racial injustice, the play provides a kind of false catharsis. It is the equivalent of appointing a congressional committee to investigate an air crash. It eases...
...connecting the cries of the bloodied hippies to the eerie death wail of the gutted cattle. "Chicago was a town where nobody could ever forget how the money was made," he writes. "It was picked up from the floors still slippery with blood, and if one did not protest and take a vow of vegetables, one knew at least that life was hard life was in the flesh and in the massacre of flesh-one breathed the last agonies of beasts." In this setting, in fact, Mailer engages in a bit of butchery of his own. His account seethes with...
Judge Goldberg's decision came over the violent protest of Assistant District Attorney Joseph Stone, who claimed that the Columbia demonstrations were "a testing ground of the principle that in a free society change must never be directed by violence...