Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PARIS (Columbia, two LPs). Brel writes and sings in French, but his approach to life travels well. He attacks indifference, loneliness and unhappiness the way a windmill attacks the air, stirring up little tempests with whirring music and sharp imagery. Juxtaposing sweet, lyrical melodies with the words of protest and defiance, he speaks of "illness, war, the young ones, myself." A quartet of empathetic American performers interpret Brel in English with inventive arrangements and passionate delivery. The hopeful Bachelor's Dance (La Bourrée du Célibataire), the chagrined Jackie ("If I could be for just...
...Senators McCarthy and McGovern state that our capacity to protest the events in Czechoslovakia has been weakened because of our involvement in Viet Nam. I suggest that besides withdrawing from Viet Nam, we could further strengthen our capacity to protest by withdrawing all U.S. forces from Europe and Asia. If our protests still prove to be ineffective in preventing more Czechoslovakias we could escalate our protesting capacity by unilateral disarmament...
THEY left Chicago more as victors than as victims. Long before the Democratic Convention assembled, the protest leaders who organized last week's marches and melees realized that they stood no chance of influencing the political outcome or reforming "the system." Thus their strategy became one of calculated provocation. The aim was to irritate the police and the party bosses so intensely that their reactions would look like those of mindless brutes and skull-busters. After all the blood, sweat and tear gas, the dissidents had pretty well succeeded in doing just that...
...Arab terrorist organization El Fatah promptly claimed credit for the explosions that brought the total number of such incidents to 14 in two months. Its aim: to unsettle the civilian population and sabotage the modus vivendi between Jews and Arabs in Je rusalem. After a protest strike by the Arab population, normal life returned to Jerusalem. But on the Israeli-Jor danian border, the military hostilities erupted anew. At week's end Israelis and Jordanians were peppering one another across the frontier with small-arms fire...
...down payments on infinite desires. The saving grace for readers is that Harvard-educated Armah is an artist right to his sizzling nerve ends. In this brilliant little novel, he takes the small, smoldering resentments of West Africa's perennially shortchanged people and explodes them into a crackling protest against the whole of human suffering...