Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Broad Coalition...
With this broad outlook, all men are latent billionaires because of world resources and advanced technology. The problem is allocation of this wealth. Fuller feels current institutions prevent people from living like kings. He believes the establishment's faith in the Malthusian theory of searcity has led to wars and wasteful stockpiling of arms. Fuller tries to dispatch these doomsday beliefs so that mankind will work together. If fear of poverty is dispelled, cooperation and efficient coexistence are inevitable...
...wanted to demonstrate that there is very broad support for gay rights and civil liberties among straight students here." Szanton said, adding. "This many signatures will make it very hard for the Faculty Council to just dismiss the issue...
...play is a broad farce, attacking not only the antiquated sexual mores of our time, but the church, the law, and especially psychiatry, the Modern Religion. The festivities open in the private mental health clinic of Dr. Prentice (Alexander Pearson), who, as the lights go up, is interviewing an ingenue, Geraldine Barclay (Melissa Franklin), for a secretarial post. Under the pretext of determining her suitability for the job, the good doctor has Miss Barclay undress on a couch hidden behind a conveniently placed curtain. Enter Mrs. Prentice (Alexandra Phillips) at this most unpropitious time. While Dr. Prentice silently implores Miss...
...cuts back and forth between the adventures and peregrinations of her characters, Alther constructs a broad social portrait of nearly two decades of American life. She covers civil rights, Viet Nam, women's lib, the sexual revolution, radical politics and back-to-earth movements. Raised in the comfortable stasis of a small Southern town, Alther's young people are woefully and often hilariously unprepared for what life in the '60s and early '70s throws their way. What is more, the tight little community they grew up in is being rattled into unrecognizability. Outside organizers have installed...