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Word: protester (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Having read Martha Mitchell's comments on protest, I just can't seem to escape the feeling that she is still upset over the American Revolution of 1776. After all, if the British government had only handled the situation firmly, instead of "catering to revolution," then that family deed from the King of England would still be valid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 26, 1969 | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...Drag. The change in atmosphere has been remarkably swift. White House aides concede that the protest movement was rapidly gaining momentum at the time of its nationwide Moratorium Day activities of Oct. 15. The President's Nov. 3 speech urging the "silent majority" to speak out gave thrust to the counterprotesters. Yet his defiant attitude toward antiwar demonstrators also energized the massive peace marches in Washington and San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Changed Atmosphere | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

That proved to be a high point. Until recently, says an Administration official, "the home front was running in the French pattern." No longer. Says another Nixon lieutenant: "The steam has gone out of the protest movement." Sam Brown, coordinator of the Viet Nam Moratorium Committee, grudgingly agrees. The President, Brown admits, scored "a tremendous political coup by managing to identify himself with the cause of peace." The antiwar movement, he adds, is suffering a "short-term kind of lethargy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Changed Atmosphere | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...Dylan and Joan Baez sing protest songs at the Newport Festival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Top of the Decade: Music | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...school, which includes four Kennedys (Ethel, Jean, Eunice and Joan) among its alumnae, to increase its black students and faculty, hire a black dean, provide a black student center and more courses dealing with black experience. The administration response was mild. The sitters-in were told that if the protest ended peacefully, no penalties would be imposed. One college official described the demonstrators' demands as "not unusual" and their conduct as "peaceful, orderly and quiet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Campus Communiqu | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

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