Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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None of these differences do much to help the United Ministry's capacity for united action. Since September the members have drafted and approved one 150 word statement supporting the right to protest government foreign policy. Other attempts to enlist their joint support of various policy statements have failed...
...follower. He is not widely enthusiastic about rock 'n' roll ("It's just like women; I like most of it but not all of it.") and rarely feels strongly enough about a song to try and change people's minds one way or another. He liked protest songs "before they got commercialized" and he thinks that the current mixture of politics and music is "OK, as long as people don't get their entire education from pop music stations." He thought that the songs about Vietnam which were released at the end of last year were in poor taste...
...very opinionated son of a gun -- I don't play songs I don't like. Charts don't impress me -- and that's heresy." On the other hand, he says, "I hesitate to try to be arbiter of someone else's taste," and he doesn't object to the protest and Vietnam songs because they make people think. "They represent on a commercial level a feeling of thought, no matter how shallow. A lot of people thinking shallowly beats a few people thinking deep thoughts. A song may not be sophisticated, but educated people will take care of themselves anyway...
...circulation. German sociologists inquire anxiously on questionnaires, "Do you walk with your wife?" -presumably on the theory that togetherness begins along the trail. German scholars account for the national wanderlust with learned references to Goethe and the 19th century romantics, who originally glorified nature and the nomadic as a protest against the industrial revolution. By the turn of the century, the idea had captured the imagination of thousands of students, who, in groups known as Wandervogel (wandering birds), hiked, camped, sang folk songs and danced folk dances around bonfires...
Hardly had she spoken when the food problem exploded with violent rioting in desperately poor Kerala state on India's southern tip. Originally, all Kerala's political parties had agreed to call peaceful demonstrations and a one-day general strike to protest a cut in the rice ration that Shastri had ordered shortly before his death. But Communist agitators quickly began fanning the demonstrators' emotions, calling for secession from India and crying that only a bloody revolution could solve Kerala's problems. With things getting out of control, the other parties urged their followers to return...