Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Feminists, says the author, have belatedly recognized that their resentment against a male-dominated society is sometimes misdirected against their sons. For some mothers a male child can become a symbol of male oppression. One concerned activist has put a lid on the more rabid rhetoric when her son is around, explaining, "How can he not grow up to be hostile toward women if they always seem so hostile...
Ariela Gross '87, Harvard's own nonuke nuke activist, spent freshman week is Washington, speaking at the National Women's Conference to Prevent Nuclear...
Virtually any building could be considered as accessible to the public and thus subject to the commission's rulings on any complaints, said gay activist Jonathan L. Handel '82, who helped write the ordinance...
...council voted 5-4 for a residential property tax rate below last year's and a commercial rate above last year's rate. Councilors and a Harvard tenant activist said after the decision the Cambridge Rent Board could pass on Harvard's residential tax savings on in the form of lower rents...
...long been his custom, the Pope had strong words to offer on secular issues. At Ste. Anne de Beaupré, he declared that "every people should fashion its own economic and social development," tacit encouragement for activist native groups haggling with the Canadian government in Ottawa. At a wildly enthusiastic youth rally in Montreal's Olympic Stadium, hundreds of dancers arrayed themselves before the Pope in the form of a dove. He urged the festive audience, "Have the courage to resist the dealers in deception who make you pay dearly for a moment of 'artificial paradise...