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Word: activists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anal sex to third-graders, they would be in a state of shock," said Marilyn Huriwitz, a health teacher at South Boston High School. "How are you going to talk to kids that age about anal sex?" asks Al Wardell, a Chicago high school teacher and a gay activist. "I guess that's my teacher's prudishness." Young children's brains cannot assimilate such information, warns William Chambers, director of pediatric psychiatry at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. "For them, anal sex is going to the bathroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sex and Schools | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

...male audience had little trouble picking out the villains or figuring out that poor Adam, like most of the men in the room, was doomed to lose custody. "I've seen some men sobbing away, so overcome by the system," said John Rossler, a shop owner and fathers' rights activist from North Syracuse, N.Y. "The system is so stacked against men that they don't fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Men Have Rights Too | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

Peter Schwartz, publisher of the leading objectivist journal, The Intellectual Activist, said Reagan's current defense policy amounts to nuclear reduction through negotiation and "is the most immoral doctrine we could adopt...

Author: By Joseph C. Tedeschi, | Title: Philosopher Argues For Morality of Arms Race | 11/20/1986 | See Source »

...offering the voters something other than the telegenic truisms of the Gipper. The Democrats, on the other hand, should use these encouraging election results to find the resolve to avoid slipping into centrist defeatism. They must reaffirm their commitment to social justice and compassion, to peace and to an activist government ready, willing and able to help...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Tale of Two Parties | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...Canterbury, contrasting with the black of Greek Orthodox Archbishop Methodios. Buddhism's Dalai Lama, traditionally regarded as a living deity, was in attendance, swathed in purple and yellow. Also there were Uruguayan Methodist Emilio Castro, chief executive of the World Council of Churches, and South Africa's antiapartheid activist Allan Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches. Metropolitan Filaret traveled from the U.S.S.R. It was the "most beautiful gift to God," observed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the diminutive Nobel Peace Prize recipient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Summit for Peace in Assisi | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

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