Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even the Socialist Party reluctantly came out for the Democratic ticket, arguing that "no strategy of protest voting will seriously forward the progressive political trends...
...rule, Maxim Gorky wielded his renown to save and protect people, until he died a mysterious death probably arranged by Stalin. Boris Pasternak constituted an invisible government that the regime could never quite overthrow. Khrushchev could make Pasternak give up his Nobel Prize, but no one could erase the protest he raised in his masterwork, Doctor Zhivago: "They only ask you to praise what you hate most and to grovel before what makes you most unhappy...
...authority of the writer has always been immense in Russia, particularly when his fame abroad was such that the Kremlin had to think twice before destroying him. Under despotism, the writer's voice can assume resonances unknown in the freer societies of the West. Without formal institutions through which protest can be expressed, it is often only the writer who can dare to ask the questions and articulate the agonies of millions. So long as he is not cut down, he contains in his own person the alternative to unthinking obeisance, the witness that conscience and courage still count...
...group of students plans to picket the University October 1 to protest the serving of California grapes in Harvard dining halls...
July 27-31 saw large-scale efforts at organizing high school students to protest the police brutality. Pressure was applied on the government by seizing public buses and building road blocks near the schools to prevent the police from coming near the high schools. More police brutality ensued. Students started sleeping over-night in the schools to keep the police out. On August 1 at 2 a.m., the Mexican army surrounded one of the high schools. The more than 100 students sleeping there were told to leave. When they refused, an army bazooka was used to blow open...