Word: activist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many students, the hope of the late '60s and early '70s was accompanied by consternation and fear, says Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, then a prominent anti-war activist...
...renowned student activist who was instrumental in the birth of the Afro-American Studies Department in 1969, Wilson also pursued less radical activities...
...elegant, literate librettos by poet Alice Goodman, tackled explosive subjects in unconventional ways. Nixon presented a surprisingly intimate, sympathetic portrait of the former President, while Klinghoffer roused the ire of some American Jews with its compassionate presentation of Palestinian suffering. Jordan, the team's new librettist, is a political activist whose lapidary vernacular libretto uses a catastrophic Los Angeles earthquake as a metaphor for the shattering power of love...
...mistake to dismiss the concerns of the militias as paranoid. The mainstream media are so viscerally liberal that they do not understand the low esteem in which they are held by the people. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Supreme Court, activist federal judges and TIME all have a share in creating an environment in which the productive citizens of this country feel they have been forgotten by the government that is supposed to serve them...
Malenfant, a longtime Cambridgeport resident and community activist, decided to downsize the executive board, reducing the number of vice presidents from nine to two. The vice presidents are Dick Clarey and Julia Gregory...