Word: dissent
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...Countryman noted that new immunity procedures established by the Organized Crime Control Act were being used "solely against those who dissent [against governmental policies]." He said that the government has tried tomake "a Federal indictment synonymous with guilt...
...note of dissent was heard from at least one student. Claire Du Charme '73 said: "I don't like it. I don't think it's right to take a human life." She said she felt that a loan program would lead to a careless attitude toward abortion...
...decline have been offered. P.B.H.A. spokesmen attribute it to a fundamental questioning of the aims of the traditional social service and to the greater contemporary appeal of political action. It is true that lobbying for social legislation and working in election campaigns as well as in organized activities for dissent engaged the energies of many potential volunteers at this time. However, it should be noted that competing programs in Cambridge and Boston now draw on the same pool of interested students, and, in some instances, do not require as great a commitment. It is our impression from talking with students...
...have to administer the bureaucracy he found there and, according to State's self-critics, "scarcely used the department at all." Dean Rusk, while he had "an informed interest in measures that would stimulate the departmental machinery to produce new ideas, did not welcome dissent on the Viet Nam issue...
...year of the supergroup, 1970 will most likely go down in history as the year rock began searching for a superman. The candidates have come from everywhere-especially from such fretfuL or dissent-ridden groups as the Beatles, Jefferson Airplane and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. One reason behind the search for individualism is that youth in America, as elsewhere, has become less interested in rock as a mind-blowing communal expression and more curious about what individual musicians may have to say. What the rock world seems to need right now, therefore, is a high-talented, low-keyed, protest...