Word: firebrands
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...dispute had all the elements of a classic labor-management donnybrook. The workers' contract had expired months ago; bargaining was going nowhere. Finally the unions called an emergency meeting: the bosses were accused of unfair labor practices and a strike vote was scheduled. "Management," asserted one union firebrand, "is chicken to bargain in good faith...
Most Canadians could endorse at least the second part of that self-analysis by Quebec's Premier-elect René Lévesque, 54. Once a firebrand Cabinet minister in the federalist Liberal government of Quebec, he was even considered by some-in much earlier days -as a possible candidate for Prime Minister of Canada. Now the voluble, hyperactive Levesque says that anyone who does not believe his separatist Parti Quebecois is determined to seek national independence is "daydreaming...
...meeting marked by accusation and firebrand rhetoric, the Cambridge City Council last night heard testimony from three sides about the controversies surrounding the six-month long strike at Cambion Thermionic Corporation in North Cambridge...
...apprentice teachers alike create a classroom situation that dispels inhibitions and keeps students excited about learning. Says he: "I ban from the classroom any teacher who is not 'alive.' A teacher of language should be in total command of the language, but he should also be a firebrand and an actor." That perfectly describes Rassias himself. For an upper-class lecture on the 18th century French philosopher Diderot, Rassias shows up in class in a blond wig, breeches and billowing shirt and proceeds to act out the emotional states that Diderot argued are unique to man. Rage...
Womansurge counters that NOW is overstressing lesbian rights and alienating housewives with firebrand oratory, when the main task is to build coalitions on bread-and-butter issues: more jobs for women, day care, legal protection and help with marriage and divorce problems. Says Friedan: "A lot of women dropped out because NOW was no longer speaking for them. The sexual preoccupations and radical rhetoric seemed to take over." Like many other feminists, she believes that a housewives' revolt against narrow, strident feminism produced the recent stunning defeats of state equal rights amendments in New York and New Jersey (TIME...