Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, after Greece's Minister for Religion and Education threatened to introduce a bill that would void the election of "unpopular" primates, Iakovos at last resigned. He then went home, suffered a slight heart attack, and was placed under a doctor's care...
...such a forum functions properly only in an atmosphere where the free expression of ideas--including ideas that are critical of the status quo, unpopular ideas--is encouraged. Of course it requires forbearance to grant freedom of expression to students hardly dry behind the ears, who may use this privilege to question the motives and abilities of distinguished scholars and educators. Of course it may demand patience beyond the ordinary to concede that the student critic--however wrong-headed he may be--should be permitted to express his opinions...
After a bitter critique of the radical night, Hoffmann addressed his remarks correctly at SANE and Tocsin. "Precisely because what you are advocating is unpopular the burden of proof is on you. If you simply repeat rituals you are going be dismissed out of hand as irresponsible...
...Question. The U.S., argued Nelson Rockefeller, "cannot shy from the responsibilities of power" by refusing to test in the atmosphere just because it may be unpopular with neutral nations. "In this age, the margin between victory and defeat-survival and disaster-can be a thin one. The question is not whether we like nuclear power or its weapons. The question is: Do we love freedom...
...Fanciulla opens, a crowd of gold miners surges into the Polka ("A Real Home for the Boys"), order "veeskey" and proceed to drink a toast ("Veils Fargo!" shouts one sport; "Ip! ip!" reply the miners). The most unpopular man in the place is Sheriff Jack Ranee, who divides his time between lusting after Minnie, the Polka's owner, and pursuing a bandit named Ramerrez. In Act I, Minnie falls in love with Dick Johnson, a stranger in the Polka, invites him up to her place on the mountain only to learn in Act II that he is Ramerrez. When...