Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...realistic and idealistic conception of change. Maybe we've been disillusioned or maybe we're just too used to getting everything we desire, but we've been drained of what's supposed to be youthful idealism and creative approaches to problems. Traver's evolution as an artist and activist provides a rare role model...
Ever since Sakharov's latest hunger strike began to attract world attention, the Soviet press has been full of reports on the Jailed American Indian activist, who went on a fast in April and again in May to protest prison conditions. Peltier ended his hunger strike, but graphic Soviet newspaper accounts have continued to describe "an emaciated man, starved to exhaustion" and imprisoned on "charges trumped up by U.S. security services." The Reagan Administration points out that whatever absurd parallels Moscow may draw between the two cases, one difference remains: Sakharov has never been convicted of murder...
...blow-job as a metaphoric image of mankind's embrace of the nuclear warhead, the psycho-sexual elements of penis-envy described by peace activist Helen Caldicott, is matched by Rick and his friends' contradictory vision of the female. Rick cheers when the auto-mechanic raises a toast to "women with big tits" but through deep self-examination is led to reject the ephemeral and ultimately self-destructive zeitgeist of his own sex drive (read: the arms race...
...absolute majority of our own." If that effort means taking the same position as the Greens on many issues, West German politics will grow even more polarized. Curiously, one of the few people who did not take the environmentalists' success too seriously was Petra Kelly, the U.S.-educated activist who helped found the party. "It was hardly a real gain," she told TIME Correspondent Gary Lee. "In a federal election people would not have been so quick to give the Greens a vote." But as a West German Foreign Ministry official observed, "The Greens have given notice that they...
While faculty committee members seem content with the pace of change, students who only spend four years at Harvard are somewhat more impatient. Toba E. Spitzer '85, a student member of the Faculty Committee on Women's Studies, this year said it was not "an activist body" and that the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) started a student committee of women's studies this year in response...