Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Written on the pieces of red paper are students' responses to the question: "Do you strongly identify with being Asian American, or is it just another label?" The responses are plagued by pathos-laden drivel, minority activist jargon and ethnic angst of the Amy Tan variety. They are exactly what one would expect from self-serious Asian college students looking to add excitement to their petty bourgeois existences...
When People Magazine dubbed activist Faye Wattleton one of the "10 Most Beautiful Women in America" of 1989, her daughter had a tough act to follow...
Kathleen N. Cleaver, a former leading activist of the Black Panther Party, will lecture on feminist and civil rights issues later this month...
...University's attitude towards the event was best summed up by Dean of the Kennedy School and Acting President Albert Carnesale. Introducing the celebrity, he reeled off pages of her accomplishments some in entertainment, but most, playing to the star's "serious" purpose, in the activist arena. "And," the administrator finished with a smile, "I like her music...
Admittedly, the questions were often poorly worded and vague. But they alluded to the most basic current political issues. It is difficult to take seriously someone identifying herself as a "concerned citizen" and Democratic campaign activist who has nothing more substantive to say on the health care problems facing America than that she goes with her "instincts" in recommending a single-payer system...