Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years of the Book-of-the-Month Club. A key associate was William Rose Benet, a Pulitzer-prize-winning poet. In 1940, control passed to Norman Cousins, then 25, whose editorial interests took in the sciences, travel, the music-recording business and, above all, politics. A dedicated liberal activist, he used SR's once staid pages to crusade for U.S. medical treatment for the "Hiroshima maidens" in the 1940s, for disarmament in the 1950s, for aid to rebuild a Vietnamese village ravaged by U.S. Marines in the 1960s. But he always proved a shrewd salesman; his special sections...
...Hollywood's all-American ingenue in Tall Story and Sunday in New York. A few years later, her then husband Roger Vadim retooled her into a European sex symbol as Barbarella. By the early '70s she was a scrawny, scraggly Hanoi Jane, the ardent activist who visited the Viet Cong, turned up at Black Panther rallies, and cheered on the Indians who occupied Alcatraz, earning contumely for herself and an Oscar for her performance in Klute...
...N.A.A.C.P. is suing to have its initials removed from the L.D.F.'s name. The main reasons: public confusion and competition for contributions. But some insiders concede that the disharmony, which has been building for several years, partly reflects the feelings of younger black lawyers, trained during the activist '60s and early '70s, who resent white leadership in the civil rights movement. For his part, Greenberg declines to be drawn into angry responses to the gibes at his color and its impact on his effectiveness. "Such assertions, to my mind, have no validity," he says with controlled mildness...
...married five times ("and goddamned ashamed of it") and had his problems with his children, Actress-Activist Jane and Actor-Director Peter. But there was something almost palpable about the man's integrity, symbolized by his lifelong insistence on regularly abandoning the screen for the rigors of the stage. That quality encouraged forgiveness of his occasional wasted screen moments, a certain sympathy with his troubles. When his last marriage, to his wife of the past 16 years, the former Shirlee Adams, turned out happily, and he and his children finally formed a mutual admiration society (though he continued...
...people believed him. As a former student activist and Minister of Education, Royo was regarded by the country's all-powerful National Guard as a potentially dangerous leftist, and the ex-President was far from popular with Panama's private sector. The rightist guard leadership had been grumbling especially loudly in recent weeks that changes in the government were long overdue, even though Royo's term in office was not scheduled to expire until 1984. In an interview three weeks ago, National Guard Commander Rubén Dario Paredes mused: "Twenty-four more months...