Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Linnean Street is not alone in his protest against modern morals. His finely phrased complaints strike at the heart of what is no small problem on the modern American scene. But articulate observers have seldom been more than articulate, and idealists and social reformers meet complete indifference far more often than opposition. The janitor is no exception. His protests are voiced again and again to various passers-by, and met with a smile, a smirk, a subdued laugh...
...arouse widespread student protest, Kennedy hopes to weaken a key argument of those who oppose his bill. As Senator Richard Russell said in debate last summer, "I have not received a single complaint from a young citizen of my state who feels he is insulted by being asked to say he believes in the Constitution of the United States...
...grants, which the government awards directly. Although the University would not be compromised if government scholarships alone were encumbered by loyalty affidavits, it should still persist in the effort to release all federal funds from the affidavit restriction. As a leading academic institution, Harvard must be exemplary in its protest against all loyalty restrictions in federal aid to education...
...rush never came. The first day of the program, 15,000 Koreans showed up at the ward offices, but only 117 signed up. The rest went at the behest of Korean Communist leaders to protest the repatriation plan. The last-minute question about a change of mind, insisted the Reds would be "a breach of human rights." Tight as their control over their followers appeared, the Reds had not forgotten that in U.N. prisoner-of-war camps at the end of the Korean war, a similar questioning process had turned up an embarrassing 14,000 Chinese Communist soldiers...
...like Les Plaines du Far West, began to concentrate on the authentic, dramatic vignettes that are now his stock in song ("One has to realize," says he, "that a song is a theatrical play"). For a time, Yves sang the Communist line, appeared at party rallies, specialized in social-protest numbers. But politics, he now believes, is not his line-possibly because he owns a chateau in Normandy, drives a $25,000 Bentley and reaps a fat profit from stage appearances and films (his latest: Where the Hot Wind Blows with Gina Lollobrigida). The mesmeric effect he has on females...