Word: movement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took about two weeks for the movement to boycott Nestle's Corporation to grow from a dining hall petition to the topic of primary debate in the Student Assembly and the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL). For a while, it even looked as though the University Food Services would actually accede to the demands and stop buying Nestle's products...
...anti-nuclear movement, along with the entire environmental movement, is nothing less than a revolution. It is un-American in that it rejects America's credo since the Industrial Revolution--unlimited economic growth. In this way, the environmental movement threatens the very foundations of American capitalism. It proposes alternative values for America. And so, the environmentalists--once shunned and ridiculed by Americans--find themselves embroiled in a deadly serious political argument...
RANDY BARBER used to have long hair. In patched overworn jeans he would trek form the green hills of Hanover to the SDS centers on the East Coast mustering support for the dying antiwar movement, organizing, demonstrating. He formed the Peoples Bicentennial Commission in an effort to remind Americans of their radical past, producing rushed superficial works like Voices of the American Revolution. He organized the Midnight Ride to Concord in April...
...have used. The main strength of the book is its detailed documentation of economic trends, quoting labor, Congressional and industrial leaders and analysts to add color to what could have been a very bleak subject.Even if Rifkin and Barber's next book, on the economic significance of the evangelical movement in the U.S., denotes a return to radical faddism, The North Will Rise Again will stand...
...they could become appendages to machines in the city--experiencing at the same time the isolation and overshadowing loneliness of the city--this country has found her heroes in professional sports. Where participation in daily physical activity once precluded mere observations, most Americans today experience the joy of movement through the vicarious thrill. Many become heroes only in their hopes and dreams...