Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spain's Vice President These statements recently electrified Spam, where protest is still a tentative testing affair. The speakers, representing the church and the armed forces earned the force of two powerful arms of the political triad that has supported the rule of Generalissimo Francisco Franco for 32 years (the third being the aristocracy). One man is a usually conservative cleric, pleading with the government to be more liberal; the other is the officer who administers Spain on a day-to-day basis, warning the country against liberalism. Both addressed themselves to the same phenomenon: the mood of questioning...
Night is the sound of people breathing all about, grunting now and then and groaning in drugged pain. The men are all too aware of their bodies at night, and displeased with what they perceive. Their bodies seem suddenly, unaccustomedly weak and unworthy. They ache and protest with each shift on the damp sheets. The stitches pull; one is certain that all the vital sap must be flowing from the wounds the doctors have left open to drain. Each man knows that he has not slept a moment, and he quietly hates the men next to him who seem...
...teaching post at Epiphany College in Newburgh N.Y., because of his strong antiwar stand. In opposing the Viet Nam wa, the brothers have openly violated the law out of conviction that other means of dissent have been exhausted. "I have tried all the conventional and legal forms of protest to little or no avail" says Philip, who argues that both Christ and Paul allowed the possibility of civil disobedience when man's law counters God's. The government, of course, could not agree. Priesthood or no, both the Justice Department and the State of Maryland indicted the unruly...
...were high school seniors in the year that John Kennedy, a politician who gained their trust and inspired their ambitions, was shot to death in Dallas. They were college seniors in the year that Martin Luther King, the Negro leader who tapped their idealism and drew them into social protest, was murdered in Memphis. Throughout all of their college careers, the war in Viet Nam has tormented their conscience, forced them to come to personal decisions relating self and society, country and humanity, life and death. With the lifting of most of the graduate-school deferments...
...Class of '68 has also harassed military recruiters and Dow Chemical interviewers, picketed induction centers, held massive?and sometimes unruly?rallies to protest the war. It has eyed its own campuses critically and loudly cried out for a more relevant education. It has demonstrated in support of fired professors and striking janitors, thrown itself in front of campus bulldozers, demanded everything from black-culture courses to total freedom from parietal rules...