Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bishops turned for advice to outside consultants and a four-member staff. Monsignor George Higgins, a lecturer in theology at Catholic University of America and an outspoken social activist, helped shape the group's position on labor. Staff Member Thomas Quigley, a lay specialist in Latin American affairs, played a role in the international section of the letter. Insiders say, however, that no single person was responsible for the document's overall tone or content...
...into the sagging local economy. Among its tactics: repeated harassment at worship services attended by executives and disruption of bank operations, notably by putting dead fish in safe-deposit boxes and skunk oil in ventilation ducts. Last week the noisome style of DMS culminated in the imprisonment of an activist minister...
...gets to play Marat. Suffering from a skin disease, the feeble and pinched looking Marat crouches in a bathtub. His fervent speeches sound simultaneously noble and pathetic as he bleats them in a madman's wavering voice. Although sympathetic and believable, Moore lacks the personal force of a rabid activist. On the other hand, Nick Lawrence displays great haughtiness as the infamous Marquis, swaggering about and scorning the other inmates as "lost revolutionaries." During, his soliloquies, however, he seems too coldly contemptuous of political movements, too condescending towards Marat, and he enunciates with such precision and venom that his words...
...former Presidential Candidate Jesse Jackson, 43, agreed to be a guest host on Saturday Night Live last week. When some in the black community thought the comedy show a demeaning forum, Jackson acknowledged that he had "wrestled with appearing," but decided that the chance to reach a young, activist audience was too good to pass up. During rehearsals, Regular Billy Crystal told Jackson he could replace SNL Departee Eddie Murphy if he did well. "I'd rather debate Reagan," said the Democrat, who nonetheless pointed out that the now lily-white cast "is hardly a rainbow coalition...
Last nights protest at the Stated Theater reinforced efforts by liberated Massachusetts activist groups to publicize the issue through a non-binding referendum on the Nov. 6 ballot...