Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with feelings of mixed emotions. Their frustration is understandable. Someone has realistically said that a college president constantly walks a picket fence, not knowing when he will fall and be impaled. The dangers of the job and the limitless hours it demands have always existed. But when students protest against war, racism and poverty, they expouse concerns which are basic to our existence. Our task becomes that of channeling their convictions into constructive action. As one who has sat in the chair for 25 years, I contend that the opportunities of the hour far outweigh its sacrifices and offer...
...began a passionate telegram of protest that, reported the London Sunday Times in a copyrighted story last week, had been sent by Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenko to Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin on Aug. 22, the day after Warsaw Pact forces invaded Czechoslovakia. If Evtushenko was indeed the author, it was a bold and surprising act. Once the daring young man of Russia's liberals, in recent years the poet has become a kind of safe Establishment rebel. He wielded a careful pen, which earned him gaudy trips around the world, reading his works...
...House was shocked when it seemed possible that Columbia might show some leniency to students revolting against the distant and authoritarian administration. A Republican legislator, Louis C. Wyman of New Hampshire, moved to deny federal scholarships, loans, or other aid to any students who participated in a campus protest. Only a few Northern Democrats opposed...
...Some of the latter were doubtless curiosity seekers. For others in both groups the affair probably had many of the elements of the once-traditional spring riots and subsequent "panty raids." But even after discount is made for those elements, the extent of active participation in violent and unlawful protest is significant...
...protest the stunt Lampoon members will roll a six-foot replica of a birth-control pill from Harvard Square to the Boston Common. On the Common, LaFarge explained, they will detonate the pill to dramatize the Lampoon's "angry dissatisfaction with parody-parodies of Life...