Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STAR-SPANGLED GIRL, by Neil Simon, makes The Odd Couple a threesome. A pair of post-Ivy League rebels (Anthony Perkins and Richard Benjamin) publish a protest magazine with virtuously impoverished zeal until a girl (Connie Stevens) who looks like a whipped-cream frappe shows up to curdle their joy. The gags come in two varieties: Simon-pure and simple Simon...
Letters of protest [Dec. 16] against the program at Johns Hopkins Hospital to perform this sex-reassignment surgery are largely emotional reactions that have nothing to do with science or with reality...
Richard Nixon burns himself in protest over the Vietnam war. As he shoots up in flames, he cries out to curious passerby: "You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore...
Anthony Perkins and Richard Benjamin, the boys involved, write and edit a magazine of strenuous anti-U.S. protest but no visible proceeds called Fallout. The boys are intelligent fools and natural allies. Editor Perkins has the wiry agony of a tortured coat hanger. Benjamin, the writing half of the team, casts the glowless beam of an abandoned lighthouse...
Gain v. Loss. Not surprisingly, Justice William O. Douglas was stirred to hot protest in defense of privacy, one of his current constitutional passions. "We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy," Douglas argued, as he ticked off "rampant" use of bugging, wiretapping, lie detectors, personality tests, police entrapment, and even "peepholes in men's rooms to catch homosexuals." As Douglas sees it, the whole picture reflects an official "philosophy that the means justify the ends...