Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protest march began at the Public Garden at the corner of Arlington and Boylston Streets. The demonstrators marched up Arlington St., and made a left on Commonwealth Ave. to St. James Ave., where they congregated in front of the Park Square Building, which houses the Greek consulate...
...Left is determined not to cooperate with groups that have even slightly bowed to the status quo. When Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin suggested that the New Left shift from protest to coalition politics and work with labor and liberals, he was berated as a cop-out who was threatening its moral purity. Michael Harrington, who put poverty on the map in his book The Other America, is now similarly denounced; he calls the New Leftists "mystical militants...
...they want to remain "permanently radical"-which is about as possible as remaining permanently young. Their refusal to make common cause with liberals and other reformers, their dedication to action rather than thought, emotion rather than reason, will almost surely destroy what influence they have. Some are already disillusioned: protest demonstrations are not changing the Viet Nam situation, and the civil rights movement is not only stalled but increasingly hostile to them. Their leaders say that they will now concentrate on community action, and wistfully speak of a coalition of the universities and the poor-but that will not work...
...away with the need for search warrants and set up special military courts to try violators. Troops patrolled the streets with orders to shoot anyone who broke the dusk-to-dawn curfew. The seizure was such a model of military precision that no one had time to organize a protest. Despite some rumors of shooting in Athens and Salonica, the coup was virtually bloodless...
...pontifical commission was not alone in its sharp split over the official Catholic stand on contraception. Students and faculty at Washington's Catholic University of America walked out last week to protest the firing of a popular professor, and once more, not only birth control, but an article in the National Catholic Reporter was involved...