Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the weekend, Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, originated the idea of writing a letter of protest to the Illinois State Bar Association...
Last April's protest of the planned razing of the homes in this area led to the Corporation decision to construct 1100 housing units in Boston. Rose and Associates is the firm favored by Edward G. Gruson, assistant to President Pusey for Community Affairs, to handle the construction, but no final decision has been made...
...PROTEST to the French student has always been a tradition tinged with romanticism and infused with folklore. Barricading the narrow streets of the Latin Quarter, arching cobblestones on the heads of the "flies," clinging to your comrade and meeting the police charge, even getting blackjacked and later displaying your "wounds" were in part a celebration, reminiscent of Le Grand Soirdance, song, love, and combat...
...Protest was even expected and within certain limits approved by the French people, themselves carriers of a taint of anarchism. It has been said that if at 20 you are not behind the barricades you are a coward and lack idealism, but that at 35 if you are not in the ministry you are a fool and lack realism. During the events of May 1968, Maurice Grimand, chief of the Parisian police, appealed to the students as one of the gang, that he too had been a student and had gotten blackjacked by the police...
They are right in at least one sense. Student protest has lost its romanticism, at least one sense. Student protest has lost its romanticism...