Word: ellen
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...winning coalition" has allowed the fundamentalist drive to recover some of its ideological purity. During the heyday of the groups collaboration, anti-abortionists had to struggle with the philosophical tension between their own "pro-life" claims and the Darwinistic ideals of the conservatives. Noting this internal contradiction, columnist Ellen Goodman wrote a couple years ago that the New Right "was great on getting you born." but showed less concern for the quality of life outside the womb. Safe delivery into the world, they argued, not welfare or Medicaid, is the outer limit of social responsibility for the individual...
...illogical extreme. In contrast with other single issue groups the anti-abortion activists have not been content merely with lobbying. These organizations forthrightly undertook a program to pack Congress with politicians not only sympathetic to, but also actively involved in the right to life movement. In 1976, Ellen McCormack ran for President of the United States on the abortion issue...
Well, a whole lot of help came awful quickly yesterday, and it came in the name of Ellen O'Neill. Just two days after the Crimson had suffered its worst defeat in three years, O'Neill led the squad to a nail-biting 2-1 win over Providence College in Providence...
...Massachusetts. "We want them to get over the hope that the ideal marriage may still come out of it." Yet a hopeful woman, trying to make a go of a not-so-good marriage, is not always a fooL There are those in the field who?like the Ellen Jamesians, the self-mutilating feminists of The World According to Garp?seem too quick to find in wife abuse a confirmation and dramatization of sexism, a bloody cartoon of male oppression...
...fact or as fancy fiction, Daniel rarely achieves its ambitions. Hutton, Grouse, Amanda Plummer (as Susan), Ellen Barkin (as Daniel's wife) and Tovah Feldshuh (as a childhood friend) are among the most talented and persuasive of young stars; here they are either given little to do or are buried in charmless roles. One brief sequence suggests the film's potential power. At a rally for their parents, Daniel and Susan, then 12 and 7, are passed toward the stage on the upstretched hands of the faithful; the children are moved and frightened by this show of support...