Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case after case in past years, the court answered the question by throwing out convictions for demonstrations in public places. Yet the court could not blind itself to the ominous change in civil rights protest-from early nonviolence to last year's holocaust in Watts. And a changing judicial attitude became apparent last February, when a bare majority of only five Justices reversed the convictions of Louisiana Negroes who had refused to leave a segregated public library. The sharpest dissenter was the court's stoutest liberal, Justice Hugo Black. Said he: "It has become automatic for people...
...Yalies completed the game under protest after their quarterback, John Nelson, was stopped on a rollout inches short of a two-point conversion by Eliot's Jeff Hall...
...educational philosophy. Princeton students sit on academic committees, recently won the right to audit courses, take the final examination, get credit if they pass, forget it if they fail. Some 800 students at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., last week burned cardboard replicas of proposed campus buildings to protest the sterile modern architecture. Students at the City University of New York staged a sit-in to demand a voice in administrative decisions, but President Buell Gallagher insisted that they were asking too much...
...Quiet One. Several elements serve to explain Dos Passes' eclipse. A change in literary fashion left him beached with the wreckage of the realistic novel. A change in intellectual-political fashion, moreover, left his best work tainted by identification with the social-protest or even "proletarian" production of the Red Decade. This offense was compounded by the fact that his later work gave aid and comfort to the right, just as his earlier books had succored the left. The three novels that constitute District of Columbia (1952) have been unfairly dismissed as the rightist tracts of an embittered...
...astute teen-bopper, you listen to the lyrics of Rock 'n' Roll as well as feel the sound. The words have evolved simultaneously with the music: from the sex of hard rock, to Dylan's abstract symbolism of protest and drug experiences, to the more naturalistic and commonplace lyrics of the Spoonful sound...