Word: protestingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...well enough known that they need not be repeated here. It is sufficient to note only that less than nine months later, lunch counters in over 110 communities in the South are for the first time serving both white and Negro customers. Non-violent resistance, the tactic of protest in the Southern cities and in Northern sympathy demonstrations, was never before used so widely or so successfully in America. Why was this strategy used? Why were students, ordinarily inactive in off-campus social and political affairs, the initiators and backbone of the movement? And why did it happen at this...
...realpolitik; when the other side has all the guns, it is convenient and wise to be non-violent. Or there is a moral explanation: the resisters regard violence as evil, under all circumstances. They feel that the dignity of man must be maintained even, or perhaps especially, in protest movements. And one can note that religion is a more active salient influence in the life of the Negro than of the white, and the southern Negro church is a more important agency of community cohesion and ethical teaching than is the northern today...
...saying 'We don't want nuclear bombs, but for God's sake, America, protect us'?" And what if Britain did get out of NATO, asked Gaitskell. "The whole alliance may break up. The U.S. might wash its hands of Europe." There was a rumble of protest from the floor and from the galleries. Snapped Gaitskell: "I know there are people who say they'd be glad to see the Americans out. They were glad to see them here...
...black words like Illegitimacy and Homosexuality and Miscegenation boil down into what is in the world and what happens in life, and indeed the girl's touching, not unthorny relationship with the homosexual is the best thing in the play. Nor does A Taste of Honey shout its protest, which is as much social as economic, and aimed less at the system than the Establishment...
Last Friday night Joan Baez and Eric von Schmidt sang folk songs in Agassiz Theater, under the aegis of the Harvard Liberal Union. Young Liberals hoping to hear even one "song of social protest" were disappointed, for the program was arranged under the widely-held and peculiar assumption that everything sung by a folk singer (even essentially conservative songs like many of the ones Miss Baez sings) partake in some way of the yeasty liberal mythos...