Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good humor, I must protest your Essay, "Are The WASPS Coming Back . . . ?" [Jan 17], because of your lack of understanding of just who is a Wasp...
...protest the use of the term Wasp as the equivalent of "Americans of the old stock." There is a comparatively small but very proud and loyal group of people in the U.S. whose ancestors were both Catholics and Americans long before the influx of ethnic groups. They include Marylanders, Frenchmen in St. Louis and New Orleans, Castilian Spaniards in the Southwest and certain families in Philadelphia and other coast cities. Mr. Sargent Shriver is the most prominent man of this group at the present time. To refer to him as a "Waspirant" is as insulting as it would have been...
...review of 1968's mail, TIME'S letter writers found that it was largely concerned with the more serious news-Viet Nam, the capture of the Pueblo, politics at home and abroad, student protest, urban unrest, assassination. In other years, readers seemed more concerned with lighter stories. In 1967 the article that drew the most mail was the cover story about Playboy's Hugh Hefner; in 1968, it was the cover that reported on the violence at the Democratic Convention in Chicago...
Failed on Flukes. Dr. Olinger discounts political motives in skyjacking. "The skyjacker is making a symbolic gesture of protest, and this makes it unlikely that his political reasons count for much," he argues. Beverly Hills Psychiatrist Ralph Greenson agrees. "Skyjacking is a typical mechanism of people who resort to irrational violence," he says. "With the temporarily omnipotent feelings the skyjacker gets, he actually is in control of his own destiny and the destinies of others. He's next to God, literally, flying to Cuba. With this one grand gesture of power, the skyjacker shows his contempt for the establishment...
Appalled Reaction. The purpose of Palach's self-immolation was contained in a note found in his overcoat pocket. To rescue Czechoslovakia from the "edge of hopelessness," he had written, a group of volunteers had decided to burn themselves, one by one, as a protest. Palach made two demands of the government: an end to censorship and the prohibition of the Soviets' occupation newspaper, Zprávy. Considering the finality of his act, they were remarkably modest requests. The note was signed, "Torch...