Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...censorship isn't the issue. It's the interactions between different social groups in the houses that matter. In the days of ordered choice, the Adams House stereotype offended few house residents. Most people chose the house partly for its reputation. But times change. As the nude-photo editor says, "Just the fact that some people got offended at it says something." And the "Oak Leaf" story hints at just how the non-ordered choice system has strained house life...
...presidential race was not Hillary's first experience with expedient self-censorship. Bill Clinton lost his first re-election bid as Governor in part because voters did not like the way this attorney out of Yale and Wellesley kept her maiden name. After she began answering to Clinton instead of Rodham and acting more like an archetypal wife and mother, she gradually expanded her role. Over the years she headed up an education task force that instituted a competency test for teachers, brought a neonatal-care unit and two fully equipped hospital helicopters to the state and introduced a home...
...aggressive deregulation of business to cure the economy and strict family values to salve the nation's social ills. The far right would go further, getting the government out of the workplace but into private homes, backing stricter laws against abortion, restricting the rights of homosexuals and widening censorship. Though these so-called cultural conservatives represent only a small fraction of the electorate, they are a powerful force in Republican politics and provide much of the seed money and ground troops essential to winning elections...
...handled). Conservatives are no longer content to run a businessmen's Administration like that of Coolidge or Hoover, letting other matters be debated by the pointy heads. Today, after all, the basic values of society are changing or being debated -- attitudes toward monogamy, women's roles, abortion, gay rights, censorship. These topics are bound to be tested largely in the freewheeling atmosphere of the academy and the arts, and changes there are bound to disturb traditionalists. But when traditionalists respond as they have on abortion, with obstruction and assertion rather than argument, they should expect to lose in the arena...
...opposition. My only memories of Jimmy Carter are restricted to the hostage crisis. How do you show support for an elected official while still keeping your self-respect as a cynical Harvard liberal? Are we not allowed to make "didn't inhale" jokes? Do we stuff adultery and censorship in the same closet the Democrats put Jesse Jackson? No more hooting at spin control efforts? Some underemployed lawyer needs to write How to Win and Feel Good About It: A Guide for Democrats Under...