Word: protested
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dyed-in-the-wool liberal Democrat, but I'm pretty damn close. I've certainly got the family credentials to back up my claim: My mother sat in at the 1964 Democratic National Convention to protest the Vietnam War; my father marched on Washington for civil rights and my brother headed National College Democrats while he was in school...
Acontingent of Eliot House residents betrayed their pampered past and aristocratic heritage last week when they "went kind of berserk" (according to one protest organizer) and threw a tantrum over the removal of paper items in their dining hall. Like latter day courtiers in 17th century France, the Eliotees banged demi-tasses of dining services-grade coffee and demanded their paraffin...
...BOTTOM LINE: To Gail Sheehy, "the change" is a plunge into pathology. To Germaine Greer, it's a spiritual crisis. Both ladies protest too much...
...that would further lower the tone of American campaigns. The freedom to ignore politics is a democratic liberty almost as precious as the freedom to participate. And for many intelligent, well-informed citizens who care passionately about the nation's future, not voting can be a principled strategy of protest...
...foundation threatened to file a suit against public broadcasting stations that aired a documentary by the University of West Florida about the foundation's crusade to free Cuba. When the Miami Herald editorialized against the 32-year- old trade embargo against Cuba, Mas launched a citywide billboard campaign to protest. Anonymous callers phoned in bomb threats, and the paper's vending machines were jammed with feces...