Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students occupied College Hall, Smith's main administration building, in protest of the college's investments in South Africa. But unlike Harvard administrators who faced a similar situation in 1969, Dunn refused to call the police...
...also took a moment to flog Donald Trump for the Reform nod, and bash Buchanan's "revisionist history about WWII" for good measure. What, no words for Warren Beatty? The actor pulled a pretty good Hillary in Hollywood on Wednesday night, talking loud - "Is there no protest anymore?" - but staying mum about his own intentions. Beatty's liberal siphon could be as strong as Buchanan's conservative one, but only if he too jumps to the Reform party, which he doesn't sound too likely to do. Meanwhile, Mr. Big Lead might want to keep...
...book?s protagonist, Oskar, refuses to grow in protest at the hypocrisies he sees all around him as Germany is seduced by the allure of Nazism, and then ?- as a dwarf ?- gains privileged access to the elite of the Third Reich. Its bold exploration of issues postwar Germany was doing its best to forget made its author a legendary social critic and literary provocateur. He became strongly identified with Germany?s political left, and in 1990 was criticized for rejecting the speedy reunification of East and West Germany. "In his later writing, he took partisan political positions," says Gray...
Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Minister in the Memorial Church Peter J. Gomes beamed at the enthusiasm students showed for Graham, joking that 20 years ago, the sight of undergraduates sleeping on the front steps of Memorial Church would have sent him running for cover, fearing a student protest...
...sparse reaction to the announcement contrasts with backlash to the College's 1995 decision to randomize upperclass housing, which culminated in a noisy protest led in part by then-Adams House Master Robert J. Kiely...