Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radcliffe administration has with drawn its protest that "Lysistrata" is too "vulgar" a play to be produced by Idler, the Annex dramatic group...
Also announced were the final castings for the production, which is slated for December 15 and 16 in Agassiz Theatre. Virginia Carrol '51 plays the part of Lysistrata, who induces the women of Greece to protest against the Peloponnesian War by refusing to go to bed with their husbands and any other...
...diabolical twist to the eyebrows and, later on, the dinner jacket into which he changed every evening during the war, when no one wore such a garment, are obdurate vestiges of dandyism. But the shocking London of the '708 was too much for the genteel and moral Irish Protestant, who had worked as an accountant and claimed to be kin to a baronet. He heard the Biblical and warlike voice of Marx. Its despotic sound, its subversiveness, its talk of the continuous war of classes, its protest against poverty, the passion of its economics, lastingly moved Shaw...
...Atheist, Irish. In the tiny (pop. 110) village where Shaw had spent the last 44 years of his life, however, the parting amenities were those due an old man and a kindly neighbor. With the subject of their prayers gone beyond protest, a few Ayot neighbors, family servants and the daughter of a local publican gathered in Shaw's parlor for a brief service read by the local Anglican pastor, the Reverend R. J. Davies. "Mr. Shaw was not really an atheist," Pastor Davies said later, "I would call him rather an Irishman...
...resolution brought a protest from Uruguayan delegate Enrique Rodriguez Fabregat. Said Fabregat, "Nothing has changed in Spain . . . The same totalitarian regime still exists." It was also opposed by the U.S.S.R. and its satellites. But with the support of the U.S., Canada, Arab nations and most Latin American countries, the move to recognize the "reality" of the Spanish situation seemed sure to pass both the U.N. Special Political Committee and the General Assembly...