Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have served in recent years as Attorney General have brought different approaches to the job: flamboyant activist (Bobby Kennedy), judicial academic (Edward Levi, chosen by Ford), slick wheeler-dealer (Nixon's-and Watergate's-John Mitchell). William French Smith, 64, is, above all, a discreet and reticent corporate lawyer, dedicated to serving his once and present client, Ronald Reagan. This conservatism, in both philosophy and style, has been the hallmark of Smith's tenure at the Justice Department...
...better in the bestseller section. Check out Jane Fonda's Workout Book, for instance. From sexpot to anti-war activist to movie star to mother to avid jogger who exercises "until I am dripping with sweat," Jane here leads her troops through arm stretches, back leg extensions and more...
...some respects, Henze's life mirrors that of another German composer, Richard Wagner. Like Wagner, Henze is a political activist; he sheltered Rebel Rudi Dutschke during the European student uprisings in the late '60s, just as Wagner had actively supported the Dresden uprising of 1849. And like Wagner, Henze is willing to compromise on political principle to have his music played: Wagner was a polemical anti-Semite who still chose Hermann Levi to conduct the premiere of Parsifal, while Henze is a dedicated Marxist unembarrassed by being supported in high style by his royalties. Both...
Anti-nuclear activist Dr. Helen M. Caldicott, former clinical instructor in Pediatrics at the Harvard-affiliated Children's Hospital, said the World War II decision to launch a nuclear attack against...
Nuclear proliferation is "the one crisis that overshadows everything," Howard Morland, a journalist and anti-nuclear activist, said yesterday...