Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reporting for TIME makes them give more thorough consideration to what is going on, not only on their campuses but also far beyond, bringing local insights into broad perspective. Their TIME credentials usually will help get them in to see the president of the university or into a student protest conference, but the job often does call for some special approaches-particularly with people who happen to disagree with us. Says Gloria Anderson, our girl at the University of Wisconsin: "Being a stringer for TIME demands that you know some psychology as well as journalism. While saying...
...Francisco area, where last year almost 60,000 housewives, hippies, businessmen and beards marched, only 15,000 zealots turned out despite a blanket invitation to protest "against the war, racism, repression, poverty and the draft." Most of the 200,000 young Americans who took part in a day-long "student strike" by cutting classes the day before the marches just sat around on campuses, strumming guitars and singing folk songs. Remarked a San Francisco State professor: "Isn't it great that all these people came out to celebrate William Shakespeare's birthday...
During the past three months, students have demonstrated for change in 20 countries. They have taken to the streets in such usual centers of student unrest as Brazil, Japan and The Netherlands and in such normally placid places as Denmark, Switzerland and West Germany. Student protests have led to the temporary closing of at least three dozen universities in the U.S., Italy, Spain, Tunisia, Mexico, Ethiopia and other countries. Belgian student demonstrations, fanning the old Flemish-v.-Walloon controversy, brought the government down. Egyptian students, marching in spontaneous protest against government inefficiency, obliged Gamal Abdel Nasser to rearrange his Cabinet...
While the accomplishments of the Columbia protest might not have been possible without the conspicuous seizure of an administration building, the demonstration gradually has disintegrated into a piece of civil disobedience in bad faith. When the protestors refused at first to talk with the Columbia Administration's spokesman David B. Truman, they opened themselves to charges of "protest for protest's sake." Since illegal demonstrations are intentionally public acts, how they look is not inconsequential...
Tiny acts of vandalism by a few of the demonstrators were blown to huge proportions by the daily press. So the demonstrators must blame themselves for providing the public with an excuse to ignore the substance of the protest...