Word: movements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year ago, Mrs. Wall, a petite, college-educated brunette, would have hung back. She was not a hawk, but neither was she a participant in the peace movement. "The whole problem is so complex," she explained, "that for a while it overwhelmed me. But then I began to realize that the complexity of a problem shouldn't be a reason not to do anything." There was another influence working as well: "As my husband and I have grown older, we .have become increasingly aware of our Christian responsibilities and more deeply committed to our moral obligations, and this...
Many black radicals have attacked the Panthers for allying themselves with white radical groups. One such critic is Stokely Carmichael, now in Guinea working for the restoration of Ghana's deposed dictator, Kwame Nkrumah. Cleaver dismissed Carmichael's argument, saying: "A revolutionary movement calls for unity. Capitalism thrives on the kind of divisions some people want to keep...
...shop owners and artisans account for almost one-fifth of the French working population -the highest proportion of self-employed in Europe. Their power was last harnessed in the mid-1950s, when a burly ex-bookseller named Pierre Poujade turned a tax protest into a movement strong enough to help topple the Fourth Republic...
Pirate Plugs. Even before devaluation, the new Poujadists had found a new Poujade. He is Gerard Nicoud, a 24-year-old cafe owner who last spring launched a shopkeepers' movement at La Tour-du-Pin in France's southeastern Dauphine province. His slogan: "A class that does not defend itself is condemned to death...
...than the malady. But there were moments of high humor and certainly social awareness. A rich, fat and powerful consumer society was rich, fat and powerful enough to accept its own image, no matter how ugly it turned out to be. Perhaps because the image was so powerful, the movement was unusually short-lived. A scant decade after its birth, Geldzahler observes: "It seems today that Pop art was an episode. In fact, just about everything new and original in Pop was stated by a few artists in the first years of its existence...