Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alabama, who overwhelmingly endorsed Lurleen Wallace as her segregationist husband's puppet candidate in a cynical attempt to evade the state's constitutional provision that prohibits a Governor from succeeding himself (see following story). Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King denounced Lurleen's victory as "a protest vote against the tide of inevitable progress...
Love, Modern-Style. He got there, in the past four months, singing unmelodious songs in a plain, unemotional, unmusical voice. His repertory is the same protest, parent-baiting message music that is now becoming passé in the States. One of his hits, La Guerre, sounds like a medley of Eve of Destruction and Blowin' in the Wind...
...original are Antoine's reflections on love, modern-style. In France, there is a movement afoot to repeal a 1920 statute prohibiting contraceptives for women. While the law itself has never been much of an inhibiting factor in France, it does give Antoine and the kids something to protest about. He sings an anguished ballad about an impoverished young wife who winds up killing her nine children and herself. He makes the same point in a lighter strain in Antoine's Lucubrations, his hottest-selling record...
...mural painting with a Government program similar to that in Mexico. F.D.R. was interested, but, he cautioned Biddle, he did not want "a lot of young enthusiasts painting Lenin's head on the Justice Building." Nonetheless, many of the program's finest murals contained notes of social protest. Even Biddle titled his own fresco for the Justice Building The Sweatshop and Tenement of Yesterday Can Be the Life Planned with Justice of Tomorrow...
...types commit vandalism at a debutante party, and Jerkism when Bronx teenagers drop down to the Yankee Stadium outfield and steal Mickey Mantle's cap. It is Jerkism to lie down on the floor of the White House or on the tracks of the Southern Pacific to 'protest' anything. It is Jerkism to drink three Martinis, and Jerkism to pretend that Pop Art is Art. It is Jerkism for a boy to grow his hair like a girl's, and . . . Jerkism for a nonrabbinical student to grow a beard. It is Jerkism to be a Communist...