Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This time, the Russians did more than protest the Chinese outrages. They began an emergency airlift of all of their more than 200 embassy dependents from Peking, who started boarding planes amidst a howling mob of angry Chinese. The Russians also retaliated in Moscow, where the Chinese embassy had mounted inside its compound a glassed-in display of photographs of police and students scuffling in what the Chinese called "The Bloody Incident in Red Square." Burly Soviet plainclothesmen chopped down the display case with axes and saws. When the Chinese rushed out to defend their art work, the cops pushed...
...Rochester, Sheen demonstrated his concern for local poverty by naming the Rev. David Finks, 36, as his "vicar for the urban ministry" in charge of slum problems. Finks has been closely allied with a local Negro protest organization set up by that professional agitator, Saul Alinsky. The group has been demanding that the Eastman Kodak Co. hire 600 Negroes from poverty areas. Despite his appointment of Finks, Sheen has refused to take sides in the quarrel-but he has pointedly urged city business leaders to provide more jobs for the city's Negro ghetto...
...20th century, no man spoke up more strongly for the freedom of the church than Otto Dibelius. A stern, proud, blunt Prussian, Dibelius was one of the first German churchmen to protest Nazism, whose distorted views on Christianity he later termed "a frightful mixture of race, blood, soil and New Testament." Suspended as superintendent-general of the Kurmark church district in 1933, he continued his resistance by writing clandestine leaflets-for which he was arrested several times...
...whole thing seems to be reduceable to a neat pattern. Faculty members object to a frustrating war, and they are looking for an acceptable, and still powerful, form of protest. They turn, therefore, to rank-in-class--which they consider harmful to the academic experience. Rank-in-class is a legitimate educational weapon for a larger, intellectual attack...
...ignoring the rank-in-class issue and focusing on 2-S, the Harvard Faculty deviated from this pattern. It got bogged down in a jurisdictional dispute, and ended by rejecting a proposal that smacked too much of political protest and not enough of academic reform...