Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCarthy's first reaction to the news of the invasion was to score the President for convening the National Security Council that same evening. In fact Johnson basically agrees with McCarthy's point of view. The President's reaction to the invasion was startlingly mild--a formal protest--and it was not until after there was serious talk of a Russian invasion of Rumania that the President warned the Soviets the United States would regard such action as an alarming change in the existing balance of power. Although he later cancelled a number of cultural exchanges between the two countries...
...THESE are times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest...
...June 4, Columbia's commencement day, Keith Karnofsky, 22, was arrested in a student protest near the campus. A month earlier he had been charged with criminal trespass when New York City police cleared Columbia's buildings of student rebels. Today he is studying to be a rabbi at Manhattan's Hebrew Union College, and he sees no disparity between his radicalism and his faith. As Keith puts it: "Activism is a Jewish thing...
...Jewish parents have raised their children with strong ethical consciences while neglecting their own. "The kids find that their parents have betrayed something. They look around and ask: 'Where were you? You let this happen.' " Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee believes that youthful Jewish protest against social inequity is a valid, idealistic continuation of the "prophetic rebellion" that began in 7th century Israel. He may be right, but not many parents are finding it easy to accept the idea that their son the revolutionary is in the ideological line of Hosea, Isaiah and Jeremiah...
...their own modest billing: "A good, steady-going, down-to-earth pop group." Their beat is tight and jabbing, their guitar backings crisp. Their songs (Happy Jack, I Can See for Miles) aim to divert listeners rather than convert them. Un like current groups performing along the protest-and-prophecy axis, they do not come on like four hoarse men of the Apocalypse. Not at first...