Word: fighting
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Jared Israel 67, a member of the Progressive Labor Party (affiliated withWSA), attacked the Project but also denounced Thursday's violent invasion of the Center for International Affairs, which he called "an attack on working people-absurdity, not militancy. We need to fight the administration, not the people...
...Truman was satisfied to be poor; that Eisenhower achieved security through royalties; that Roosevelt and Kennedy possessed inherited wealth; and that even L.BJ. had Lady Bird. But will a President who has already gained so much from inflation, and who stands to gain so much more, feel impelled to fight it for the rest of us? Maybe "Nixon's surprise call for milder tax reform" isn't so surprising after...
...Southerner and a strict constructionist, the South Carolina jurist expected opposition in his fight for Senate confirmation. Liberals and civil rights activists are upset by his go-slow attitude on integration, and union leaders by what they consider his anti-labor stand. Roy Wilkins, in a statement for the Leadership Council on Civil Rights, asserted that Haynsworth's confirmation would "throw another log on the fires of racial tension." A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany testified that he was "not fit to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court...
...Even for the privileged, the feeling of social claustrophobia is tightened by a system of conscription which makes the campus a draft haven and which distorts career choices in an effort to avoid service in a war nobody wants to fight. The deep misgivings about the war, compounded by the immorality of using an inequitable draft to fight it, generate a bitter skepticism of the values which motivate all established authority...
...through a black-white confrontation with moments of humor but no fresh insights. Years of sibling rivalry and family dissonance are spewed up in an evening-long wrangle between a brother and a sister in Hello and Goodbye by South Africa's Athol Fugard. Unlike a good family fight, a bad one sounds dull, mean and petty, though Colleen Dewhurst as the whoring sister gives a performance that is etched in sulfuric acid...