Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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All this commendation, back in 1981, was deeply gratifying to Abraham. Then 34, with only a short-term teaching position at Princeton, he was anxious for tenure, the guarantee of lifetime job security. To publish with such laudatory notices could provide insurance against perishing in the limbo of the untenured...
How had Abraham become the focus of such turmoil? At the A.H.A. convention, the Belgian-born historian conceded, "There are mistakes in my book." (Earlier he had admitted paraphrasing the quotes.) "But," he insists, "the mistakes do not distort reality. The truth, the argument, wasn't based on the errors...
MOST PUBLIC-SPIRITED NETWORK: ABC, which interrupted its coverage of the Democratic National Convention to show a rerun of Hart to Hart.
We are not talking about an ordinary adolescent escape route here, something like the stamp collection or the drum set preordained for the parental attic. We are talking about a lad who would, if he could, become a bird. We are talking about an adolescent making a bird suit pasted...
The women's movement, stung by the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment in 1982, had redoubled its efforts to secure a greater role for women in the nation's political life. The Democratic Convention was the spectacular culmination of those efforts. Women across the country spoke of feeling validated...