Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Martin, Colgate dean of admissions, has closed his office in sympathy with the protest and announced that it would remain closed until the demonstrators left the building...
...Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa., where he was elected class president and outstanding student, he discovered the works of Hegel and Kant. Here also he was exposed to the writings of Mohandas Gandhi, whose mystic faith in nonviolent protest became King's lodestar. "From my background," he said, "I gained my regulating Christian ideals. From Gandhi I learned my operational technique." Indeed, Gandhi's word for his doctrine, satyagraha, becomes in translation King's slogan, "soul force...
...outbreak was triggered at a routine student demonstration two weeks ago near a branch of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Marching in protest against the food served at the university cafeteria, students began throwing insults and then rocks at the police who had been called to the scene. Suddenly, the police started swinging their clubs and shooting. In the melee that followed, a bullet killed Edson Lima Souto, 18. Almost instantly he became a martyr, and the next day 20,000 persons marched with his body to the city's Sao Joao Batista Cemetery. Last week...
Still commercial television being what it is, viewers had to sit through the ludicrous incongruity of chirpy commercials that the stations had spliced between footage of pillage and tragedy. Meanwhile, the networks reported that several hundred people telephoned the stations to protest the pre-empting of Bewitched and Dragnet...
...carrying on the spirit of Dada by being here, instead of in the museum," insisted a Princeton University art instructor. Quoth the durable Salvador Dali, 63, who was on hand for the occasion: "Unfortunately many of the young people today have no information. Dada was a protest against the bourgeoisie, yes, but by the aristocracy, not by the man in the street." After the Barricades. He did have a point. The anarchistic, anti-artistic spirit of Dada arose almost simultaneously in New York and Europe from the spiritual debris of World War I. It was baptized by two artistic types...