Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Radcliffe's dramatic group, Idler, will produce Aristophanes' comedy "Lysistrata in defiance of a protest by the Radcliffe administration that the play is "vulgar...
...decision was based partly on the fact that the protest did not actually forbid the production, but only strongly disapproved of it. It warned that "proper polish" should be used...
...canvas covering a 2-by-4-ft. bas-relief on the wall of an annex to New Mexico's Capitol. The bas-relief looked sullen, weary and very nude and it shocked a passing citizen. At once he told his Baptist minister, who in turn marched off to protest to 65-year-old Governor Thomas J. Mabry that the sculptured figure's reclining position was "extremely suggestive...
After weeks of careful preparations, the Reds organized a strike of workers in eastern Austria's Russian-operated factories to protest against the government measure. Red army tanks blocked railways leading to the city. A mob of 10,000 gathered at the Ballhausplatz, seat of Austria's chancellory. Western soldiers were beaten up. Despite their small following (5% of the voters), the Communists found sympathizers among other workers who were bitter about the price boosts. Not even the Viennese police were notably enthusiastic in trying to quell the riots...
World Citizen Garry Davis, who renounced his citizenship in 1948 to plump for a world without boundaries, decided that he wanted to be a U.S. citizen after all. Back from Haiti where he had gone in protest against "American intervention in Korea," he penned a plea to the U.S. Attorney General asking if his U.S. birth and war record would be enough "to bypass the time usually required by an immigrant to become a citizen...