Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Campus debate at Harvard works the same way. Minority student groups have served, during the past few years, as the activist core that seeks a reaction from the remainder of the student body...
Political scientists Edward G. Carmines and James A. Stimson propose a model of issue evolution in national politics. They argue that an activist elite--consciously or unconsciously--presents an issue, urges the media to spread the word and hopes that the community will respond...
...STUDENT GROUPS have their flaws. But the link between identity politics and the non-activist observer can break down elsewhere...
...maybe non-activist students have reached their threshhold. Awareness is enough, and perhaps no amount of activism will convince them that a more identity-sensitive university holds any further promise for them...
...strike a proper balance between incongruities. One David isn't private and a completely different one public--instead, a single Kennedy has built a thick wall between the two. One David isn't Irish Catholic, another cosmopolitan liberal--he tries to be both. One David isn't a social activist, another a flippant 'Poonster, reveling in the Castle's elite traditions--here, David is both...