Word: movement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past few years the Law School has become increasingly split between conservative scholars and those who are broadly grouped under the heading of the liberal movement called Critical Legal Studies (CLS). Tenure decisions have seen the most public evidence of this division...
Professors explain the small size of the department by citing the subject's relative lack of popularity. Harrison says, "The main emphasis on any department's size rests on the importance or expanding nature of it." Thus, during the 1960's and the Civil Rights Movement, Afro-American Studies was by necessity a more popular field of study and a larger department...
...support and commend the "Harvard 7" and their fellow activists for their efforts in pressuring Harvard to divest its apartheidconnected holdings. The movement for change in South Africa is mounting daily. The South African government talks of reform, but has viciously repressed the growing movement for full economic and political rights. An estimated 24,000 South Africans are in detention--40 percent of them children. As President Reagan's special advisory committee on South Africa concluded earlier this year, "Negotiations between Blacks and whites in South Africa appear unlikely until a further combination of internal and external pressures raises...
...showcase for new stage writing. Its second, smaller space is now home to Driving Miss Daisy, an intimate tale of a Southern Jewish woman (Dana Ivey) and her black chauffeur (Morgan Freeman), told in vignettes ranging from just after World War II to the era of the civil rights movement. This little gem echoes decades of social change yet never loses focus on the peculiar equilibrium between servant and served. It reaches a peak when the old woman goes to a banquet honoring Martin Luther King Jr. -- an event her liberal but conformist | businessman son (Ray Gill) refuses to attend...
...regard a census as a minor nuisance. But in West Germany a national census scheduled to be completed on May 25 has become a cause for protest. The pro-environment Green Party, which won 8.3% of the vote in this winter's parliamentary elections, is leading a census-boycott movement under the slogan ONLY SHEEP ARE COUNTED...