Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clearly, this had been Barney's Baby, and he took the protest in a very personal way. The cautious hostility he had for SDS now moved closer to hate. He would say later that he believed the Harvard campus was faced with a monumental issue: whether such blatant violations of personal liberty were to be tolerated. For his part, he did not see how they could. SDS had shown itself to be profoundly "undemocratic," and their tactics deserved to be damned until they were discredited. He might have liked to undertake that fight, but as associate director of the Kennedy...
...feelings may have been singular only in their intensity. Other people were--or would be--thinking similar thoughts about the afternoon's events. For the meeting of McNamara and his critics on Mill St. was not an ordinary occurrence for Harvard. It resembled no other political protest in the College's recent history. Previous demonstrations had been mild in comparison. The most memorable, perhaps, was George Wallace's visit to Cambridge in the fall of 1963. It provoked a large demonstration on Cambridge Common and picketing around Sanders Theatre. All that happened then, however, was that someone...
...shall construct a hypothetical case. Let us suppose that at the time of the Hungarian Revolt Khrushchev had paid a visit to Moscow U. Let us imagine that the students (who in fact were indignant, and who did protest) had succeeded in "physically confronting" Krushchev. Let us imagine that they piled him with embarassing questions and that they hooted indignantly at his answers. Would we have criticized them for discourtesy? Would we have criticized them for obstructing Krushchev's movements? Would we have criticized them for disturbing the dignity of a great academic institution...
...Missions. Toure's action triggered a major diplomatic response. Down from A.O.U. headquarters in Addis Ababa flew a "peace mission" eager to resolve the crisis. In from the United Nations clattered a message from Secretary-General U Thant, condemning both sides and expressing "distress." Washington issued a "strong protest" to Guinea and dropped subtle hints that it might suspend its $70 million in foreign aid unless Ambassador Mcllvaine was released. Even Nigeria's military ruler, Lieut. Colonel Yakubu Gowon, was moved to send the commander of his ten-ship navy to Accra for explanations...
...control next February. But within the party itself, there was some grumbling about the lady Prime Minister. Some Congress members blamed her tendency to capitulate in the face of public demonstrations for encouraging pressure groups to bully the government. When the goldsmiths took to the streets last August to protest against government control of the gold content in jewelry, Indira caved in and relaxed official supervision. Similarly, last week she gave in to the demands of a Hindu sect that cow slaughter be banned by announcing that the government intends to proscribe the killing of cows in those areas...