Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overstated attacks, as during the previous week, encouraged the belief that he was losing his composure at last. When, on a network television program, he accused the New York Times of "gutter politics" for an editorial questioning Spiro Agnew's ethics, he not only seemed to protest too much but actually gave the Times's critique far wider currency than it would otherwise have had (the editorial appeared originally on a Saturday, when circulation is low, and editorial page readership is even lower). In Syracuse, on the other hand, Nixon remained very much in control of himself...
...Will Overcome. For the next twelve hours, demonstrations swirled across Prague in a release of pent-up animosity against the occupiers. In the afternoon, 10,000 people marched through the city's center after a protest rally in the Old Town Square in front of the monument to the 15th century Czech reformer Jan Hus. In the evening, demonstrators waving Czech flags marched to the National Theater, where the audience later gave a thunderous, emotional ovation to the final aria of Smetana's opera Libuse...
With that slashing statement, Robert Carter-an N.A.A.C.P. lawyer for 24 years -last week resigned his job as general counsel of the association. With him went the other seven lawyers and seven clerical workers who made up the N.A.A.C.P. legal department. Their mass quit-in, staged in protest over the firing of another staff member, Attorney Lewis Steel, threatened to bog down N.A.A.C.P. legal action against discrimination for months...
Some people seem to forgo TV as a form of personal protest-against society, the 20th century or the erosion of their privacy. Manhattan Architect John Keane, 28, considers TV "depressing to have around. Lots of people I know don't have television sets, but they also don't have telephones." Others ignore TV because they are afraid of getting hooked. Mrs. Jay Sheveloff. 30, of Boston, has seen the "horrible" specter of her in-laws watching continually; she refuses to have TV around -at least until her husband finishes his Ph.D. A number of nonowners ascribe their...
Students demonstrated across the country last night in protest against the presidential elections...