Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie Renaldo and Clara yet, I have no quarrel with the review [Feb. 20]. However, I do disagree with the statements in the last paragraph. Dylan may indeed be trying "to hold on to the Woodstock ethos of the counterculture," but what is wrong with that? In my opinion, the Woodstock era was the finest hour in America history. Sure, times change, but not everyone has cut their hair and forgotten their dreams...
...explanations. Flynt occasionally received death threats -most recently at a rally in Cincinnati last year to protest his pornography conviction there. But he had lately been so confident of his safety that he was traveling without a bodyguard, though he had been advertising for one in newspapers. Local opinion was that although Flynt had no personal enemies, many people hated him for his opinions and his rambunctious life. Said Lawrenceville Mayor Rhodes Jordan, 60: "Somebody was sending Flynt a message, that they don't want his type of filth around...
...Christian Democrats had lately enjoyed a resurgence in the opinion polls, but any call for an early election would have further complicated the political situation. The Christian Democrats could probably have expanded the 38.7% of the vote they got in 1976-but only at the expense of other non-Communist parties. The Communists, who got 34.4% of the vote in 1976, would probably also have picked up support. So instead of risking an election, Andreotti skillfully dithered until Berlinguer dropped his call for full Cabinet representation, then made it clear that Berlinguer would have to pay a price...
...amidst the euphoric state of celebration after the exhausting ordeal, two major points remained: First of all, the effectiveness of an organized student expression of opinion was re-established. The notion of passivity that so many had attributed to students of the '70s was drastically broken. It would be overly dramatic to say the Pennsylvania sit-in marked a resurgence of the activism of the '60s, but the idea that students can still act on their own behalf when they feel the need to do so was proven true...
What disturbs one more, though, is the plaguing question of why a mass disturbance of such proportions was needed to arouse administrative sensitivity to student opinion. The administration was very receptive to student ideas and totally cooperative, but that was with 800 or 1,000 enraged undergraduates milling in their offices and hanging over their heads...