Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What I heard the Rabbi say, through the din of protest, was what I know to be a fact: That Jews suffer no greater restrictions on their religious life than do others in Russia who still believe in God. Great numbers of Baptists and Orthodox Christians are no more, no less persecuted for their faith than Jews. Why must the American Jew assume he has a priority on suffering...
...other hand, their release of 214 Americans for combat would invite a propaganda cudgeling from China, ever eager to berate Moscow for betraying its allies in Hanoi. In the end, both sides displayed an encouragingly sophisticated, fresh approach to defusing the danger. Next day, Thompson was handed a curt protest note. Just as curtly, the U.S. apologized and Flight 253A was set free, reaching Japan with a planeload of grubby, bearded troopers bound for Cam Ranh Bay in Viet...
...again with help from both blue-and whitecollar areas, where concern with law and order runs deep. With Senator Mark Hatfield behind him in Oregon, Nixon is likely to pocket that state's electoral votes. With Rockefeller on the Republican ticket, a tide of pro-Wallace protest voters could give Arizona and Utah, and possibly others, to the Democrats...
...imminent death of the Venice Biennale turn out to have been exaggerated. As soon as opening-day newsmen folded their notepads and shuttered their cameras, Venice's rebellious students hauled down their placards and disappeared. By midweek, most of the artists who had joined in the student protest quietly uncovered their works again, and crowds were thronging to the fairgrounds as in other years...
...American Radicalism is a kind of historical guide and handbook for the gentleman rebel -Emerson-cum-Marx rather than Rap Brown-cum-Mao. "I am less interested in 18th century radicalism than in 20th century radicalism," Lynd admits, and at times he makes American history read like one long protest march in which Jefferson, Thoreau and Staughton Lynd are fraternity brothers linked arm in arm. Lynd writes as a scholar as well as a proselyter, and his slim volume valuably documents the American tradition of dissent. But it must be read with the proper skepticism due any partisan credo...