Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...participant in a meeting of the activists last January paraphrased a popular comedian to describe the gap between the group's desires and its resources. "You can be millionaire, and never pay taxes," the local activist said. "First, get a million dollars...
Victims of a break-in and burglary at a church which houses a Salvadoran refugee and a Central American activist group claim the U.S. government may have had a role in the incident...
...self-professed Marxist terrorist-turned-minister," named--he says--Bruce C. Williams, a native of North Carolina, after having been a self-professed "militant activist" in the civil rights movement, was "recruited to join the communist revolutionary cause in Cuba." After being trained in terrorism in Cuba and the Soviet Union, and participating "in bombings and killings" in the Middle East, he saw the light, and twelve years ago became a minister in the Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic Church...
...whether willingly or not, Harvard has been pulled into the midst of political controversies. Under the watchful eyes of activist faculty members and students, nothing this $3.2 billion university stands for can or will be interpreted without political reference...
This and similarly graphic scenes serve to frame the novel's artfully related subjects: the fiction writer's need to acknowledge the deceitful nature of his craft, and the political activist's need to convince himself that his ideology is the only truth. The tragedy of Alejandro Mayta is that the give-and-take of public affairs is too perplexing for his blind faith. Like the narrator, he cannot escape the comic ironies that respect no certitudes. When free as an Andean condor, Mayta is a dedicated Communist. Imprisoned, he is a revolutionary whose zeal leads to reforming the convicts...