Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decade is ending, and there can be little argument that the 1960s was a time of turmoil, of bitter protest and brutal violence, of confusion and finally, of near despair over the American destiny. This week, in a special section, TIME takes a long look back at those troubled years and finds a fascinating parallel in 19th century Europe, when men also called for a total revolution in human behavior...
...what you can do for your country." The words were uttered less than ten years ago, yet it could have been a century. The classically balanced cadences, the summons to duty and patriotism sound incredibly nostalgic to ears grown used to a decade of shouts of raw passion, cacophonous protest and violence. The bright promise that began the '60s turned to confusion and near despair as the decade ended. President Kennedy's version of U.S. manifest destiny seemed to be followed by what Psychiatrist Frederick Hacker calls "a rendezvous with manifest absurdity...
...protest against Pan Am's contracts with the Department of Defense, the Committee is urging sympathizers to fly on other airlines and to avoid the Intercontinental Hotel chain, which is owned...
...expect the boycott to be immediately effetive, but we hope to educate people to show what they can do to protest the war." Mrs. Kagan said...
More than one thousand of the Coop's sixty thousand members have signed a petition supporting a boycott. Zavelle said of the petition "The Coop cannot take a minority position for a symbolic protest...