Word: protestingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three-hour Thursday evening meeting, the assembly passed resolution after resolution: condemning next year's college cost increase, supporting reform of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, and calling for a campus-wide demonstration to protest the University's refusal to rename the Englehard Library at the Kennedy School...
...assembly leaders said there are no plans yet for organized protest--they're leaving the issue for their successors after next week's elections...
...Cudjoe said Afro-American literature is not "protest literature;" it attempts to assimilate and express the experience of oppression...
...held values and opinions that paved the way for a repetition of the United States's most familiar foreign policy fiasco. The Iran that the press and the U.S. government sought was one that would be westernized along the Shah's U.S. inspired model. At the root of Iranian protest were the twin grievances that Iran engendered--the oppression that the Shah required, and the challenge to cultural and nationalist ideals that westernization entailed. The press ignored those social grievances of opponents to the Pahlevi regime who cited vicious police state tactics, the dramatic concentration of wealth in the Shah...
...there was quite possibly very little that Carter could have done." But that article and most of the other press coverage retained, at least implicitly, the idea that the U.S. should intervene. The cultural blindness that led to press coverage that either ignored the cultural roots of the Iranian protest movement or to the belittling of it, resigned the U.S. to the task of leading the pagan out of the wilderness. But missionaries--cultural or religious--do not convince, they provoke...