Word: picketer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...same time, the situation comedy seems to have lost the central place it once held in the nation's cultural consciousness. In the early 1970s, a bracing dose of social realism was injected into a genre previously dominated by white picket fences, pipe-smoking fathers, mischievous genies and flying nuns. Sitcoms began to tackle controversial issues, from racial bigotry to abortion, and to portray, often with biting candor, the way contemporary adults interact with one another at home and in the workplace. Sitcoms kept people home nights, inspired fads and catch phrases and created stars...
...They moved from New York to Los Angeles-a city that Parker detests to this day-and the marriage had troubles almost from the start. "Shirley had this drive, this push," Parker recalls. "She didn't want to be surrounded by a white picket fence. I would be wanting to putter around in the kitchen, and she wanted to be at the studio." Says MacLaine: "Steve was very supportive, but he just didn't want to be known as Mr. MacLaine. From day one, he talked of going to Japan, where he had spent some time...
...Harvard as just another battle between the sexes--but this time between a group of "rabid feminists" and a "bunch of incurable male chauvinists." This pigeon-holing of such an important issue is what we should all strive to prevent. Now that the party is over and the picket line has dispersed, we fear that the Pi Eta will become just another isolated incident. But we cannot, and should not, rest easy, secure in the belief that an injustice has been exposed and the problem solved. We are all still guilty of more subtle manifestations of sexist views, which regard...
...think there is a right to do anything you want and vice versa. There is a right to have the club or to picket," said a graduate member, who asked not to be identified...
Seeing Red reveals a history of the Communist party in America long obscured by the Red Scare. In the 1930s Communists stood at the front of the picket lines for unions, unemployment insurance, Social Security and civil rights. Although responsible for much social and political change, communists never revealed their alliance to the Party. They could lose their jobs and all of their gains as organizers and union leaders if people knew their politics. Nevertheless, they worked on, steadily recruiting and organizing strikes. They believed in a methodology that would make the American Dream a reality...