Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stanford issue shows Bennett's close-minded intolerance even more clearly. The school's Faculty Senate overwhelmingly endorsed the progressive proposal to incorporate issues of gender, race, and class in a required course for freshmen by a vote of 39-4, after two years of thoughtful, campuswide debate. Yet Bennett immediately credited the decision to "bullying, threatening and name-calling," by a vocal minority. Numerous Stanford officials, including President Donald Kennedy '52, have dismissed this charge as ridiculous...
Neither Dukakis nor Jackson seemed to mind that the presidential race was at a pause. The Massachusetts governor, the nomination seemingly within his grasp, took a weekend off for the first time in months...
...opposition hasn't been firmly decided for this year since initial filing deadlines are not until Tuesday. But Democrat Jack McKay, Independent Robert Alexander and Republican Glenn Fiscus have all taken out nomination papers for the race...
Whether we thought him ruthless or saintly (yes, the pendulum swung that widely) didn't really matter. Once in the race, Bobby Kennedy was the story. We launched what was to become a blur of flights, motorcades, voters pawing candidate, and motels for five, occasionally six, hours a night. First it was in Kansas, where Alf Landon gave him a surprisingly warm introduction. Then on to Tennessee. Crowds were huge, no surprise considering Bobby's celebrity. But they were also friendly. We even went to Alabama, George Wallace country, then to Indiana, where, just before the deadline, Kennedy officially entered...
...shooting of Martin Luther King, 19 days after Bobby plunged into the 1968 campaign, accelerated his transformation. The war, Kennedy's ostensible reason for getting into the race, gave way to a near desperate plea for an end to racial hatred and intractable poverty. In speeches scribbled on note pads in the days after King's death, Kennedy made some of his most eloquent appeals. "For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly," he declared. "The violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors...