Word: movements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country, we are inclined to downplay differences, particularly when it comes to questions of class. Historians have shown that while the movement for temperance was framed as a national moral problem, it was in many ways a class phenomenon. And the resulting temperance laws amounted to an effort by the middle class to assert its hegemony...
...performance is matched by that of Jodhi May, who plays the oldest child, Molly. May's Molly is a pouty, stubborn child who feels her mother's attachment to the anti-apartheid movement deprives her of her mother's attention. May cries and stomps and yells at police in a way that suggests a true mother-daughter likeness between her and Hershey...
...have shown more than that. Over the past month, the church, through Poland's Jozef Cardinal Glemp, has conducted a series of informal meetings aimed at forging political cooperation between the Jaruzelski regime and moderates outside the government, including some with ties to the outlawed Solidarity labor movement. So far, the negotiations have foundered over the government's refusal to grant fresh recognition to Solidarity, which emerged as a potent challenger to Communist rule during the union's brief heyday in 1980-81. Gorbachev's unusual stopover at a functioning church appeared to provide a subtle endorsement of the bargaining...
...Atlanta does have a soul, some people think, it is the soul of black folks. When it comes to the black experience in this country, Atlanta has been a national city for a very long time -- not just the headquarters of the movement but a center of black education and place where black people amassed capital early on and developed a solid and prosperous middle class. Atlanta didn't make its progress in race relations because of any blissful absence of bigotry -- it has always had its full share of violent racism -- but because an organized and resourceful black community...
Travis is the ideal -- indeed, the pluperfect -- symbol for this accidental movement, the soft-spoken, tall-sitting, sweet-singing eye of a most congenial storm. "People think country music is related to a bunch of rednecks drinking beer and fighting," he reflects, with the pleasing tang of a North Carolina accent. "They think it's all songs about drinking and cheating. But it covers a lot bigger area than that, you know." He pauses, as if taking a survey of the acreage he is trying to describe. Then, after a minute, there is a shrug and a simple, smiling, "Covers...