Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just finished reading your article concerning the executions in Rhodesia [March 15]. These inhuman acts are deplorable and have been denounced as such by the Pope and other world leaders. While I completely, agree with them, I wonder why these same leaders have not lifted a finger to protest the mass executions conducted by the regime of Fidel Castro against Cubans whose only crime is a desire to be free...
...University of Michigan. All were soberly antiwar and anti-L.B.J. Many had demonstrated against the war at sit-ins or last October's Pentagon march, but even those happenings were, in the end, frustrating. "It looked more and more as if the physical types of protest-picketing and marching and all that-were having no effect except as an emotional outlet," said Jon Barbieri, 23, a Connecticut-educated Peace Corpsman who came back from India and soon entered McCarthy's campaign. Said Dan Dodd, 23, a tall, tweedy Oregonian who dropped out of Union Theological Seminary...
...carrying placards that promised "Warsaw is not alone." Shouting down professors who called for calm, they cut classes and jostled with police the next day. In Lublin, at the Communist bloc's only Roman Catholic university, several students were arrested after clashing with police. Elsewhere, bitter but nonviolent protest flared-in Poznan, Wroclaw and Szczecin in the west, in Gdansk on the Baltic and in Lodz, near Warsaw...
...their protest marches, the militant student leaders who recently forced the closing of the University of Rome bore a banner inscribed with the three Ms of a new trinity: Marx, Marcuse and Mao. "We see Marx as prophet, Marcuse as his interpreter, and Mao as the sword," said one student-power advocate. On a visit to the Free University of Berlin last summer, Marcuse (pronounced Markooza) drew jammed lecture halls and wild ovations as he spoke glowingly of "the moral, political, intellectual and sexual rebellion of youth...
...impersonal, all-pervasive agent of domination over the individual. Modern technology, which should be used to free man from oppressive work, Marcuse argues, has overreached itself, turned wasteful and created a massive fusion of interlocking military, corporate and political interests. As a result, he says, the normal channels of protest and dissent are rendered impotent...