Word: religion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their only response was a stereophonic yawn. The women of the P.M.R.C. fired off a strong letter to the Recording Industry Association of America, an organization whose most prominent responsibility is to certify record sales. They also arranged for an interdenominational minister named Jeff Ling ("I am to religion what a free agent is to football") to put on an audiovisual show of rock naughtiness in Washington in May. Capital movers and shakers shifted in their seats while Ling read from the works of Judas Priest. Not long after, the women heard from RIAA President Stanley Gortikov. He announced that...
California officials insist that their ukase to publishers is not a rebuff to religion but an endorsement of interesting, up-to-date books. The state is also demanding improved presentation of historical subjects like the Holocaust, which publishers have tiptoed around. "The publishers will publish the books we want if we are clear about what we want," says Honig. As the textbook makers considered ways to meet these sterner standards, there was a growing sense among educators that the demands of the big spenders might start to cure the affliction of simplistic books in U.S. classrooms...
Explaining what was meant by "harangues," one of the Sidewalk Poets, Jack Powers, mentioned that most public speakers, selling "religion, politics or a product," are a "turnoff to the spoken word...
Ironically, religion and politics were outselling poetry even as he spoke. A nearby born-again Christian band drew crowds that sometimes equaled the 100 or so people present at the reading. Just a few a steps past further away, 1000 people gathered to protest the American military presence in El Salvador. While young academics and older artists gathered about the poets for the pure enjoyment of art, the various shades of baby-boomers flocked to the competing events searching, one imagines, for "self...
...Religion...