Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Right-Wing Activist Phyllis Schlafly was back on the warpath. Holding an open letter to Surgeon General C. Everett Koop at a Washington press conference last Friday, Schlafly denounced him for appearing to advocate the "teaching of safe sodomy in public schools." She accused Koop, a conservative born- again Christian, of not sufficiently promoting chastity. Though the letter, signed by 54 other activists, was addressed to Koop, its message was aimed much further. According to Schlafly, "this is a political issue, and how politicians address it is very important...
Republican Presidential Candidate Pete DuPont felt the political undercurrents of AIDS while addressing the Council for National Policy, a somewhat secretive club of New Right activists and contributors, at the Breakers resort in Palm Beach, Fla., last month. A teenager in the audience drew a standing ovation when he asked the former Delaware Governor whether he agreed that AIDS was a sign from God that homosexuality is an "abomination." When DuPont replied that AIDS was a "medical problem, not a moral problem," he was booed. Said an activist in the audience: "DuPont blew...
...four represent the range of prototypical feminine roles--mother, prostitute, feminist activist, and manic depressive. Consequently, the actresses make their most striking impressions as individuals in an ensemble rather than as an undifferentiated group...
Dusa (Mira Sorvino) is a mod mom who eulogizes the virtues of motherhood. By playing Dusa with false sincerity, Sorvino does not make her a credible character. The fourth woman, Fish (Heather Gunn), is a journalist-activist-feminist and the most ideologically optimistic woman of the bunch--often hopeful to the point of idiocy. Gunn's overstudied performance does little to help us sympathize with...
Some of the most thoughtful protesters are careful to renounce any ties to the North. "We are moving away from such linkage," says one student activist. "That position did not help us, and it was misunderstood by the public because the government used McCarthyite tactics to paint us all as Communists." The lesson was painfully learned. Many students continue to long for unification as an important goal, but they have grown wary of discussing...