Word: movement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ethnic Studies Action Coalition and the[Progressive Students' Labor Movement] willaddress progressive issues more fully than theU.C. ever can," she says
Starovoitova's friends and allies in the democratic movement vowed to unite their fragmented organizations in the wake of the killing. But they also traded accusations with their political enemies. One former Starovoitova ally, Anatoli Chubais, claimed "communists and bandits" were behind the killing. A prominent Starovoitova colleague alleged that Duma speaker Gennadi Seleznev, a communist, had ordered it. Some communists retorted that Starovoitova's allies had killed her to create a martyr. A leading communist Deputy accused businessman Boris Berezovsky of ordering the hit. Calmer heads suggested that the murder was connected to a dirty election campaign...
...prominence in 1990 when he helped a relatively healthy 54-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease kill herself with a suicide machine of his invention. Since then he has assisted in more than 130 suicides. "He's the Tom Paine or the Martin Luther King of our movement," says Girsh. "He's willing to break the law for the cause." But to his critics he is an unrepentant killer who harbors an unhealthy fascination with death. Kevorkian does little to dispel such suspicions. Asked by Mike Wallace if there isn't something "ghoulish" about his approach, he responded...
...believe, in fact, that most women would prefer a man to be glumly uncommunicative than to spill his guts at the drop of a hat. That (one recalls with a shudder) was the goal of the so-called men's movement of Robert Bly et al. in the 1980s and early '90s, which exhorted men to express their feelings. If anyone doubts the perils of men expressing feelings, he should watch The McLaughlin Group or Cable Monica...
...push for men to express their feelings presumes that we have feelings, and we do have a few, but they remain submerged, and the airing of them often violates their authenticity. We are, as a gender, as dull as we seem. Contrary to the claptrap of the men's movement, men gain power through not talking. "The strength of the genie," said poet Richard Wilbur, "comes from being in a bottle." I'm no biologist, but my guess is that the male human animal was programmed for silence. One can make us talk counter to our genetic makeup...