Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Except perhaps literally. Madalyn suffered from chronic heart disease and diabetes and, like many activist atheists, feared that at her demise, religious relatives might commandeer her body and give it a Christian burial (or, as Kerns remembers her putting it, "stick a crucifix up my a__"). Faced with a sudden health crisis, the matriarch could have arranged to die unmolested and given Jon and Robin permission to jump ship. Such a blessing might have been welcome. "Jon told me numerous times that he was pretty fed up with the whole goddam thing," says Via. "If he had the opportunity...
...last night, students at the Kennedy School of Government honored lesser-known activist Odette Harper Hines, who discussed her lifelong involvement in and commitment to the civil-rights movement before an audience of almost...
Kennedy School student Ralph W. Edwards, who had Harper Hines as a teacher in high school, was ultimately responsible for bringing the activist to Harvard...
Homosexuality needs to be acknowledged and not suppressed in present-day China, said prominent gay-rights activist Gary Wu, speaking to an audience of about 100 in the Adams House Lower Common Room last night...
...rights activist said he has actively tried to disseminate information about gays and lesbians in China, and he has also published two books and produced a film to promote awareness on the issues...