Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charles Shuman, head of the conservative-and much larger-American Farm Bureau Federation (TIME cover, Sept. 3, 1965), chided N.F.O. members for misdirecting their protest. Shuman, who blames most agricultural ills on Washington and the Department of Agriculture, jested that the farmers should not dump milk but should use it to paint the White House fence instead. Shuman suggested that farmers would get higher prices by bargaining with food processors through cooperatives than by depending on federal subsidies. Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman took a different tack, suggesting that "perhaps consumers should be prepared to pay a little more." Though...
...critics reply that academic freedom is seriously threatened by HUAC's actions and that Harvard has a unique responsibility in the academic world to lead the opposition. The critics also fear that HUAC may wait until the summer to issue the subpoena when students would not be present to protest. This tactic was used successfully against Berkeley, Stanford, and Michigan...
...side--the good guys in polka dots and paisley. "Who's on the other side?" asks Ginsberg rhetorically. "People who think we arebad." The lines are drawn. "Total assault on the Culture," orders Ed Sanders, the Fugs lead singer, as he strikes out with ballads of contemporary protest points of view, and general dissatisfaction...
...campus set, wall posters depicting its heroes and anti-heroes are bigger than ever. "When wa-,j#^ '" " ter is boiling, it's hard to tell when it gets hotter, but the fad hasn't reached its peak," says Martin Geisler, owner of Manhattan's Per PROTEST BUTTON sonality Posters. Right now the Monkees are the most popular of his 70 posters; other favorites, each for $1, include Chairman Mao, Dracula, the Hell's Angels, Shirley Temple, Humphrey Bogart, Allen Ginsberg in his Uncle Sam suit, and Peter Fonda on a motorcycle. Also prized: the offbeat...
With posters go protest buttons, and they are popping up dirtier than ever-at least in the eyes of the Manhattan district attorney's office, which is now prosecuting a Greenwich Village retailer for selling "obscene" buttons. The offenders ranged from "Pornography Is Fun" to pornography unprintable. But for Civil Liberties Un ion Lawyer Robert Polstein, banning buttons is restricting of expression. "What young people see clean," he argues, "older persons see dirty...