Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Riding a farm protest against the city-oriented Liberal regime and Quebec's rising cost of living, the conservative Union Nationale, headed by Daniel Johnson, 51, won 55 seats in Quebec's 108-seat Parliament, compared with 51 for the Lesage Liberals, and returned to power for the first time since Lesage ended their 16-year rule...
...York University last week, President James Hester had hardly pronounced the name "Robert Strange McNamara" when a dozen N.Y.U. faculty members and 131 violet-robed graduates walked silently up a grassy aisle and out of their commencement exercises to protest U.S. military action in Viet Nam. McNamara smiled slightly and gamely praised "the orderliness" of the students who walked...
Compassionate Helmsman. In an earlier but more dramatic confrontation at Amherst, McNamara, having heard rumors of impending protest, met 500 students and faculty before the commencement ceremonies, quipping, "I am told that this question session is a requirement to get an honorary degree at Amherst." He coolly answered sharp but politely put questions for more than an hour. When a student told him that some seniors would wear white arm bands and walk out to protest his honorary degree, McNamara said he respected their position because "I don't think we want to deny the freedom here that...
Despite the topicality of student protest, most speakers who took a broad look at the college generation fell far short of despair. Robert Rankin, associate director of the Danforth Foundation, told University of Redlands graduates that "you embody less silliness, a greater degree of personal maturity, more concern about humanity, and more candor and integrity than any student generation in this century...
...Student protest was far from the only topic on commencement speakers' minds, and for every dose of Nytol administered by a dull orator, someone else delivered No Doz in the form of a fresh phrase or a sprightly idea. Some of the best...