Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Evenhanded Enforcement. Last week it was Black who wrote the 5-to-4 majority opinion in a rare Supreme Court decision rebuffing civil rights demonstrators. Some 200 Negro students at Florida A. & M. University in Tallahassee had marched to" the Leon County jail grounds in 1963 to protest the arrest of other students for picketing segregated movie theaters. Although the marchers merely sang songs, clapped hands and did not enter the jail, the sheriff ordered them to leave in ten minutes. When Harriett Adderley and 106 others refused to go, the sheriff arrested them under a state law that makes...
...contrast, said Black, the Florida law's words, "malicious and mischievous," narrowed its scope to one offense: willful trespass. Not only were the students guilty of just that, he said, but there was "not a shred of evidence" that the sheriff objected to their protest for any reason other than his legitimate concern for jail security. "Nothing in the Constitution of the United States," said Black, "prevents Florida from evenhanded enforcement of its general trespass statute . . . The state, no less than a private owner of property, has power to preserve the property under its control...
...until last year was theater critic for the New Republic, hold that the campus theater must be a hub of experimentation and creativity, which, as Brustein sees it, have been forsaken by Broadway in its pursuit of commercial success. So far, Brustein's most visible product is a protest play called Viet Rock, which moved to an off-Broadway theater in Manhattan and was panned for its stacked-cards plotting. But Yale's Associate Drama Dean Gordon Rogoff finds value in critical flops. The university theater's function, he says, is to be "the one remaining place...
World War II, Figaro's great anti-Nazi editor, Pierre Brisson, suspended publication in protest against Vichy censorship. Today, Figaro is owned half by Jean Prouvost, publisher of Paris-Match, and half by Industrialist Ferdinand Beghin, but under an agreement worked out after years of controversy, the editorial staff has complete freedom...
When the New Leader published his critical report on the press corps in Viet Nam last month, veteran Military Reporter S.L.A. Marshall said, "I hoped there would be a strong protest." Out of positive rebuttal, he felt, "may come some better understanding...