> --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > James Heartfield wrote:
>>
>> >And this is called 'Dissent' because...?
>>
>> ...they don't really want to change the world, they just want to
>> stand on the sidelines and offer critical advice.
>
>I'd always assumed it was because you only ever hear the word in the
>context of
>the phrase "there's dissent in the ranks".
>
>As in:
>
>"Off to bomb Kosovo? There's 'Dissent', in the ranks".
And it was also named that to prepare the ground for Woody Allen's joke about their merger with Commentary to form Dissentary.
Doug