Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thanksgiving 1968: Mixed Blessings" [Nov. 29] commentary upon the American scene is far, far too optimistic. The materialistic clamor all about us has just about stilled the human spirit, and the only way the human spirit can now be heard above this deadening din is by way of dissent, protest and demonstration-peaceful and violent...
...Cheers to the Pikeville College students [Nov. 29]. Why call it a "protest in reverse" when students seek to gain an education? "Dialogue," "confrontation" and "polarization of ideas" can be had on the streets and across the back fence. Who needs college for that? It's refreshing to see at least some students who would rather learn than burn...
...Poet Evgeny Evtushenko seemed born to the role when first he burst upon the Russian scene a decade ago. He was young, handsome and engaging. His luminous love lyrics signaled the new kind of poetry that was possible after the death of Stalin. Babi Yar was a courageous, impassioned protest against Russian antiSemitism. In The Heirs of Stalin, he made a frontal attack on Stalinists still active among the Soviet leadership. Soon Evtushenko commanded a vast following in Russia among people long weary of the dreary cant and moralizing themes of earlier Soviet literature...
...York Times. Not necessarily-at least not for Margaret Fishback, a Manhattan ad copywriter and author of light verse (TIME, June 28). Contemplating her 7-lb., 16-section, 739-page edition of the Sunday Times, Miss Fishback finally sat down and dashed off a few heartfelt lines of protest to the editor, which the Times dutifully printed two Sundays later, right next to the 200-page magazine section's table of contents...
...they can also recognize an alternative. One which deals with the intent of violent political protest. If youthful protestors break the law in pursuit of a political objective they do not have to be treated simply as criminals. Kennedy can see this for the civil rights protests; under the new circumstances of 1968, perhaps a wider view of protest is needed...