Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he was young and poor, Irwin Shaw wrote well. His first play, Bury the Dead, was an emblematic work of social- protest theater in the 1930s. His lyrically realistic New Yorker short stories in the same era expanded the form's horizons, and, because he made it look easy -- almost fun -- to be so good, they became inspiring, formative experiences for several generations of writers...
...conservative farm belt of South Africa's eastern Transvaal, Jotham Zwane, a local black leader and successful hauling contractor, was becoming a problem for whites in neighboring Amsterdam. After leading a protest in his township, he was arrested and released. But later, when his home and three trucks mysteriously burned one night, he was rearrested, convicted of being "idle and undesirable" and banished from the area. The local authorities then moved to seize his land and what was left of his house...
While such sloganeering proved effective on the hustings, the Socialists will have to offer voters something more than the rhetoric of protest if they hope to build on their success. "Casting the protest vote is no longer enough," concedes Masao Kunihiro, a newly elected J.S.P. legislator. Like the Solidarity movement in Poland, the J.S.P. and its allies may discover that it is far easier to belittle the old than construct something new. The Socialists are already having trouble rallying opposition parties behind a single agenda. The J.S.P., for instance, stands alone in calling for an unarmed, neutral Japan and opposing...
...could have been much worse. Only hours earlier Aung San's daughter Aung San Suu Kyi, 44, the general-secretary of the opposition National League for Democracy, had canceled a scheduled protest march out of fear that the ruling military junta would turn it into a massacre. Said Suu Kyi in a letter sent to political parties throughout the city: "Let the world know that under this administration the Burmese people are like prisoners in their own homes...
...State betting plan is in the very earliest planning stages right now, but a loud voice of protest has been raised already by that bastion of pure, untampered athleticism, the National Football League...