Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Richardson faces primary challenges from Dr. Mildred Jefferson of Boston, an anti-abortion activist, and Shamie, who spent nearly $1-million of his own money in an unsuccessful attempt to unseat Sen. Edward M. Kennedy...
...novel, her first in twelve years, the salt line divides past and present, memory and desire, placidity and jeopardy. Crossing it brings everyone into the swirling orbit of the book's protagonist, Arnie Carrington. Arnie, sixtyish, is a former professor of English at an upstate university, a lifelong activist who reigned during the 1960s as a champion of campus protest movements ("Carrington cares!" the students once chanted). He left the university much as his hero Byron left England: under threat of sexual scandal, in his case trumped-up. He moved to the gulf, where his wife soon died...
...Higher education is a higher national security interest than defense," says Shattuck, who was an anti-war activist as an undergraduate. "My office must raise these issues of priority and work to restore the funding cuts...
Observers say that Kerry, who is most prominently known for his work on the acid rain issue, has the advantage of statewide recognition. A former Vietnam war hero turned anti was activist. Kerry has never lost a Democratic primary and is known as a skilled debater and campaigner...
...course, a brilliant politician and media manipulator. And he knew that he needed the support of liberal intellectuals, the core of the party, if he were to become president. So Kennedy curried the favor of academies like Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38 and John Kenneth Galbraith; their activist, anti-Communist stance began to weave its way into his campaing speeches. Kennedy gambled by casting himself as the civil rights candidate. With Lyndon Johnson as his running mate--to reassure Southern white voters--Kennedy slipped by in November with a plurality of 118.550 votes...