Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battle cry of the hyper-sensitive. The four-decade march towards a reconsideration of our attitudes towards racism and sexism has suddenly stalled. There is a reluctance, even a resistance towards those who want to subject private attitudes, and trivial public expression to the standards of civil rights and feminism...
...success of the civil rights and women's movements has turned the world on its head. Those who challenged power are now in it, and their demands often seem unreasonable...
...assumed that the civil rights movement was about the irrelevancy of race, which is why conservatives so fondly quote King about people being judged "not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." But the larger point was that race does matter, and that it will only cease to matter once we as a nation confront it head on, determine what it means to us and why it continues to hold meaning...
...entire week, not merely the Inaugural, was carefully choreographed. "This is the week," said White House chief of staff John Sununu, "designed to set the tone for governing." The difference in tone was immediately apparent. On the Sunday-night television program 60 Minutes, Reagan once again disparaged civil rights leaders for "doing very well ((by)) keeping alive the feeling that they're victims of prejudice." The next day Bush attended a prayer breakfast honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Bush opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act and once called King a "militant," but now he hailed the civil rights champion...
...drop-out-or-die ultimatums are an aggressive attempt to rectify a long- standing rebel problem. Although the F.M.L.N. has fought the 56,000-man Salvadoran armed forces to a stalemate during nine years of civil war, it has accumulated no sustained political influence. Now, two months before presidential elections, the insurgents have hit on a way to make their presence felt in nearly every town and village...