Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Obviously, we can not tolerate such behavior in a democratic society, especially one in which abortion has been legal for 15 years and one in which the Constitution guarantees all citizens equal protection of the law. Firebombing clearly goes well beyond legitimate civil disobedience...
...here to educate the world, not just to be educated," civil law attorney Avarita L. Hanson '75 told students at a panel discussion on "Politics and Leadership...
...occupation of campus buildings. At San Francisco State University, a battle over the suspension of a part-time instructor led to months of strikes, demonstrations and clashes with police. The spokespersons of revolt -- they came from nowhere -- were doctoral candidates in confrontation, who skillfully mixed tactics of civil disobedience with the electronic amplifier of television. The global village became the global...
...unusual, especially when population curves bulge and mature. The difference in 1968 was that the whole world seemed to be in the midst of a great proletarian revolution, determined to establish an alternative elite complete with attendant counterculture. The Beatle George Harrison voiced his side of the civil war in February 1968. "It doesn't really matter about the older people now because they're finished anyway," he said. "There's still going to be years of having all these old fools who are governing us and who are bombing us and doin' all that because, you know...
...still marking time. Late in the year at a conference on women's liberation, Kate Millett gave a landmark speech on "Sexual Politics" that was the germ of her seminal 1970 book. However, exponents of such views were widely derided as "bra burners." Even in the antiwar and civil rights movements, women were relegated to subordinate roles. Black Panther leader Stokely Carmichael went as far as to say that "the only position for women in the Movement is prone." Some things refused to change...