Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gifted sculptress Meta Warrick Fuller (a student of Rodin) has a small plaster statue inscribed "In Memory of Mary Turner as a Silent Protest Against Mob Violence." Mary Turner, whose crime was that of vocally protesting the lynching of her innocent husband, was in turn lynched by a mob in Georgia on May 7, 1918. The standard account continues: "Mary Turner was pregnant and was hung by her feet. Gasoline was thrown on her clothing and it was set on fire. Her body was cut open and her infant fell to the ground with a little cry, to be crushed...
None of this amounts to open revolt. Czech writers, whatever their new independence, are powerless to save from an almost certain prison sentence their colleague Jan Beneš, who was on trial last week in Prague for smuggling his manuscripts abroad. Yet the rising tide of protest seems to be achieving a degree of success. There is speculation that Soviet censors may soon release for publication Solzhenitsyn's The Cancer Ward, a novel about Stalin's secret police that has been smothered in recent years for ideological reasons. Some prominent Russian writers are even predicting that the regime...
...Chinese, he was ominously addressed as "Mister." When he covered a demonstration in front of the Soviet embassy, Red Guardsmen surrounded his car. "They began to bang on the windows," he recalls, "and shake the car violently, screaming and shouting. It was a frightening experience." When he lodged a protest with the Foreign Ministry, he got back a scathing denunciation of his "revisionist" views...
Mungo says that most men who seek help from the resistors are working class people, and he believes this is very significant. "It's nothing new for intellectuals to protest wars," he said, but he called the evidence of dissent among "plain ordinary guys" an "unprecedented movement." Yet, he admitted that this "movement" is still infinitessimally small. His office has aided a few more than one hundred people...
Such divisive tactics lead to the alienation, if not resignation, of many energetic moderates and liberals. Even arch-conservatives, such as the California and Texas delegations, several times voted against the YRNF convention leadership in protest against their intemperate tactics. What irks moderates most about the YR conservatives is their lack of energy and constructive programs. "They simply are not interested in work at all, except for political maneuvering before convention time," says John Brandt, Massachusetts YR delegate. "Their horse-nonsense drives workers out of the organization on the state level, and then the conservatives can win by default...