Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author tries to like his old boss, but phrases like "royal hauteur," "the armor of arrogance" and "unreflective activist" keep popping up. He admires the gubernatorial record, but is disturbed by what he feels was Rockefeller's emotional freeze after ordering the grisly assault on rebellious prisoners at Attica. Behind the image of a liberal Republican was an old-fashioned cold-warrior and bare-taloned hawk, who dismissed all Viet Nam draft resisters with the remark, "Those guys just didn't want to get killed...
While the Div School is a center for many diverse activist groups, the most vocal and visible is the movement against nuclear arms...
...passion periods, cynicism, hypocrisy (a denial that the gap exists, known under other circumstances as patriotism), and complacency. Relative deprivation amidst general prosperity, and increased numbers of politically active young people (who tend to moralism, becoming cynical, patriotic or complacent as they age) are among the possible triggers of activist phases of the cycle, which he says occur at about 60-year intervals...
...protest led to the founding of the Women's Center, originally concerned only with security, which began eventually to teach courses. The women's studies program now teaches some courses of its own, and sponsors "practicums," in which students receive course credit for internships with Philadelphia women's activist group...
...walking last Saturday into the Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School cafeteria--the site of the Harvard-area Ward 6 caucus--only one sported a Tom O'Neill's button. The Dukakis slate prevailed with near unanimity, O'Neill's men insist they never expected to carry that "liberal activist" section of Tommy's hometown. But it's harder for them to explain why he couldn't sweep eastern and northern Cambridge, or why his supporters joined with King forces in his very own ward 10 "neighborhood slate"--a strategy some coordinators had said they would use only...