Word: movement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...divestment movement spread like wildfire across the country for this simple reason. It brought together thousands of students and other people, not only because of the moral force of the issue, but because it promised a chance to affect change...
...movement was highly successful. It did not bring down apartheid, but many universities, including Harvard, divested from companies that did business in South Africa. Many companies did, in fact, pull out of South Africa. The U.S. Congress imposed economic sanctions, and many state legislatures divested pension funds...
HOWEVER apartheid has not died, although the movement has. This is not because activists got bored and moved on to the next sexy issue, but rather because campus protest became ineffective. Once some universities and corporations divested and pulled out, campus protests understandably cooled and then faded from the news. Unfortunately, the old media-grabbing tactics had failed to produce the broad-based student support that would have been necessary to perpetuate a campus movement in the absence of TV cameras...
Ortega's announcement capped a dramatic week of high-stakes diplomacy that included conciliatory gestures, intransigent demands, petty snubs and perhaps the promise of some real movement. But while talks between the Sandinistas and contras looked more promising, the prospects for talks between Managua's comandantes and U.S. officials remained dim, despite expressions of interest on both sides. Once Wright entered the picture, the bizarre possibility emerged that Ortega might try an end run on the White House and secure congressional approval for his plans through Wright...
...does have force, treachery and charisma on his side. There is a funny scene in which a Shakespearean actor (Richard Howells) coaches Ui in speech and movement by running him through Marc Antony's speech in Julius Caesar. At first Raphael's imitation of Howells' already exaggerated enunciation and movement makes him look like John Cleese's Minister of Silly Walks. But the walk soon becomes an obscene goosestep, the speech a guttural shout. Raphael must have watched films of old Hitler speeches, because he has der Fuhrer's mannerisms, voice and gestures down pat. He is truly frightening...