Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Save for the road signs and the scrawny pine trees lining the road, the men who took up lames Meredith's protest march (TIME, June 17) could have been anywhere but in Mississippi. State highway patrolmen - from the same force that had walked off the job as mobs howled their hatred for Meredith at the University of Mississippi in 1962 - hovered around like mother hens; highway crews even mowed the high grass on the road shoulders to smooth the marchers' path. For veteran civil rights demonstrators, the atmosphere could hardly have seemed more unreal if the Ku Klux...
...sign of the need comes from the young who are indeed looking for heroes. The seriousness of the search is only underlined by the weird pseudo heroes whom some have discovered, ranging from Bob Dylan, the long-playing minstrel of social protest, to the Beatles, who demonstrated a way to shock their elders and still be innocent...
...tenure was hardly the fault of the bonzes, who for months have been trying every trick in the pagoda political manual to oust the government: massive protest demonstrations, immolations (last week a 16-year-old girl became the tenth suicide by fire in the monks' current campaign), blocking streets with household altars, burning U.S. Jeeps and other vehicles, and riots, riots everywhere. All have proved to no avail...
...classics as It's as Empty and Cold as My Heart to a sizzling jazz beat. Pop fado has also given rise to such variations as the upbeat "new-look fado" and "fado blues." And at the University of Coimbra, the students have turned their romantic ballads into protest songs, at least one of which was virulent enough to be banned by the government...
Europe's coal miners, who are as politically potent and as well protected as America's farmers, are in a querulous mood. In past months, miners have staged angry protest marches in Germany's Ruhr and battled against truncheon-swinging police in Belgium (toll: two dead). Behind this unrest is an upheaval in the sources of energy that are at the root of Europe's economic strength. As it has in the U.S., coal is losing its primacy to gas, oil and nuclear energy. The result is fewer jobs for miners but more opportunities for those...