Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...counter-exam on Vietnam, published by members of Students for a Democratic Society, is their most effective written protest to date. The publication, which was distributed to students on their way to Saturday's draft deferment exam, is a shocking, informative, documented presentation of the SDS position on the Vietnamese war, posed in question answer form. Paul Booth, National Secretary of SDS and one of the authors of the exam, said when he was last at Harvard, that SDS's tactics were to hit people in the vitals; by handing out the exam while students waited in line...
Much that looked like social protest turned into a protest against the canons of art. Jackson Pollock, once a disciple of Thomas Hart Benton, turned out drab American factory scenes and landscapes in his search for a new style, later went on to produce his famous drip paintings. Adolph Gottlieb, another abstract expressionist who won first prize at the 1963 Sao Paulo Bienal, had to be content in 1939 to win a commission for a mural in the Yerington, Nev., post office...
Charity & Perjury. The law professor suggests a hypothetical case: "The accused has admitted to you, in response to your assurance of confidentiality, that he is guilty. However, he insists upon taking the stand to protest his innocence." Should the lawyer permit such perjury? Yes, says Freedman. Despite the presumption of innocence, most jurors tend to presume guilt in a defendant who shuns the stand. To keep him off "will most seriously prejudice his case." The lawyer may quit the case, of course, but he may also have to tell the judge his reason-in effect, declare his client guilty. Thus...
...wave of protest began when Edmund S. Barry, principal of 99 percent white Grover Cleveland Junior High warned parents that 600 white students in his district would be shifted to predominantly Negro schools by the new plan...
Roxbury parents had planned a protest meeting for the last night but called it off after Eisenstadt's reassurance that the proposal did not have the School Committee's approval...