Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...1980s that understanding of the term seemed to disappear. In the decade's dismissive shorthand, feminism came to mean denigrating motherhood, pursuing selfish goals and wearing a suit. Whereas feminism was hip and fashionable in the '70s, antifeminism became socially acceptable in the '80s. First the fundamentalist right, then the White House -- and ultimately Hollywood, television and many journalists -- held feminism responsible for "every woe besetting women," Faludi writes, "from mental depression to meager savings accounts, from teenage suicides to eating disorders to bad complexions...
...policy, which outlawed all discriminationin housing, jobs and public accomodations,"provoked a right-wing fundamentalist challenge tome," the candidate says...
...write to protest...the unseemly arrogance ofHarvard's fundamentalist Protestant and Catholicyahoos," Kilson wrote. "To protest their cheekyAmerican yahoo pretense to speak in behalf ofChristian humanistic decency and Christiancharity...
Like the city of Cambridge, Franzen's characters embody many different facets and textures. His religious fundamentalist, Reverend Stites, is kind and smart. No matter how hard you try, you just can't hate him. Louis' sister Eileen--a B-School alum--is greedy and conniving, but she is more like a lost and pathetic child than anything else...
...Malaysia's a Muslim country and is growing more fundamentalist," says Charles H. Abelmann, a friend of the Kitingans. "The federal government doesn't like having a Christian state in a Muslim government...