Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winkler left California to protest the loyalty eath demanded of faculty members there...
...London, outspoken Lady Astor spoke out again: "I hope the English have not lost their power of protesting, for protesting against what is wrong made us great. My husband says I protest every time I get on the railways. Well, it's our job to protest. When I see some of our railway people with their jackets undone, I say to them: 'Who do you think you are -Italians? Button up your jackets...
...Harvard and the other "leading education institutions consider their scholastic ratings and requirements so unimportant that they can, without as much as a faint murmur of protest, allow them to be arbitrarily placed but our Draft officials on a common level with those of every other college regardless of their varying standards...
Certainly Playwright Ibsen stood alone in An Enemy of the People, lashing out in all directions at every class and kind: at the moneybags for being corrupt, at the moderates for being corruptible, at the liberals for being fainthearted, at the mob for being brute-minded. As protest, An Enemy is frequently valid, though as playwriting it is too pat and contrived: the play is less interesting for its social protest than for its individualist scorn...
Indignant New Yorkers pelted Mayor Impellitteri with telegrams of protest. Critics who had panned the movie spoke up for anybody's right to see it. Joseph Burstyn, distributor of Ways of Love, pointed out that after The Miracle was shown in Italy, the Vatican approved Rossellini's plan to do a movie about Saint Francis of Assisi. If the Vatican was not offended by The Miracle, Burstyn implied, who was a mere license commissioner to object? Furthermore, although the film had been "condemned" by the Catholic Legion of Decency as "sacrilegious and blasphemous," it had been passed...