Word: activistic
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...week would culminate with a "Sex Dance" Bash says, for whom promoting sexual awareness is a personal mission, as his uncle was a gay activist who died of AIDS...
...might finally allow a cathartic resolution of the debilitating constitutional problem we have been suffering under for 40 years: arrogant, activist courts trampling the prerogatives of elected legislatures and elected governments in deciding how we are to live. Christmas creches snatched from public displays under the baroque, three-pronged "Lemon test"; Miranda rules plucked out of thin air; the right to abortion suddenly located in the "penumbra" of the Constitution...
Since Ann and Ray Ginger divorced in 1957, she has continued her work as an author, lawyer and activist, authoring and editing 22 books on civil rights and law, including, most recently Nuclear Weapons Are Illegal. She is currently president of the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute in Berkeley, California...
Such notions of activist poetry evolved with a tumultuous life, marked with grave personal, artistic and political decisions. Rich's early poetry, though elegant, is politically lackluster, drawing thematically and stylistically on the works of poets like Yeats, Frost and Auden. Her "angrier" later works emerged from a vibrant background of marriage, family, 1960's civil rights activism, anti-Vietnam War protests, an emergent women's movement and personal decisions about sexuality and liberation...
...buried in the same cemetery in Rome. Through Rich's instinctive search for the figure of Orion, listeners and readers voyage with the poet through a life of activism, looking through "history's bloodshot eyes" across "the pathetic erections of soothsayers," before establishing Rich as a poet and activist "practiced in life," who scans the fog for her midnight salvage...