Word: overtness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should take the rally before the Yale game--where about 300 students gathered in the Eliot-Kirkland-Winthrop triangle and then marched to the stadium--as a sign of how serious the fears of Black and other minority students have become, fears no longer only of discrimination but of overt racism and racist violence. In the past month, Lydia P. Jackson '82, president of the Black Students Association (BSA), has been the object of both a rape threat and a death threat. The BSA offices were broken into and racist slogans scrawled on the organization's calendar...
...persists no matter which party is in power. First: Who will coordinate the work of the executive committee? Second: Who will coordinate the work of the White House staff-always a force of its own? Third: Will the two coordinators be able to work together without succumbing to the overt, or subtle, struggles for power so characteristic of internal White House politics...
...states could shrewdly reinvest these funds in infrastructure systems, schools and hospitals, and publicity campaigns to bring new business running across their borders. Who would pay the dominant part of increased energy prices and which states would suffer from the Sunbelt's heightened competitive edge are likely to become overt regional controversies in the eighties...
...Incredulity is mixed with general fear; they know that anti-ERA support and the Right to Life movement run deep. While they ridicule measures like Reagan's promise to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court, they privately fear the worst. And they desperately hope that the important issues--overt social and economic discrimination (women still earn only 59 cents for every man's dollar)--will get lost in the shuffle...
...only takes a second. Suddenly there is violence. It stems from what seems a minor rift over the purchase of groceries, but suddenly there is an axe about. It isn't any overt oppressive act, but it sends Jimmie Blacksmith into a rage. He declares war. Suddenly one realizes that under the surface incredibly strong currents were running silently. Jimmie Blacksmith takes an axe to seven women and children. In one of the most terrifying scenes of murder on film, axes slowly travel through the air. One is caught completely by surprise at the horror of it, the incongruous meeting...