Word: soapboxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...present anti-homophobe crusade at Mather would not have happened without the catalyst of 19 February: Defeat Homophobia explicitly cited it at the Kiss-in and manipulated it to turn the subsequent Mather House meeting into a soapbox for speeches against the harassment of homosexuals. Defeat Homophobia talks out of both sides of its mouth: at Mather, the incident on that Sunday and more general concerns about homophobia are "completely unrelated" (as they should be), but for outside consumption the incident of "homophobic violence" that night is the rallying-point for community outrage. In as many days, three Crimson pieces...
...October 31, the Tufts Republican Club will participate in a debate on party platforms among students. Kim said the debate will be similar in format to the televised Presidential debates. Boston College (BC) will also hold its first Soapbox Debate on October 29, said Frank C. McLaughlin, chairman of the College Republicans...
...within the past three years. He had already abandoned a prodigious journalistic career as an essayist and a critic of art, theater and music -- although he insisted his dramas too were a form of journalism and derived their value from that. He had made the Fabian Society his personal soapbox and successfully promoted it as an intellectual center for the British left. Had he done no more, a place in history would have been secure. Yet he lived for another half-century of undiminished fame and scarcely mitigated activity, which is why Holroyd's opus will extend to another...
...puddles at a Beatles concert. During the "bigger than Jesus" brouhaha that lost the Beatles so many fans in the South, a girl says with unwitting prescience, "Some teenagers are gonna believe anything they say." As John comes to realize that he can indeed use his celebrity as a soapbox, he appears more self-conscious, winking and mugging at the ubiquitous cameras...
...come to dominate downtown St. Paul's cityscape and retail life entirely. About 90% of the shops are on the second story, and on the streets below there are long stretches of shopless, blank walls. Calgary has gone out of its way to retain street life (roving musicians and soapbox speechmaking are encouraged), yet even there, says James McKellar, a former Calgary planning commissioner, the skywalk system "kills and sterilizes ground-level activity." For a city to lure pedestrians off the streets, whatever the reason, may be suicidal in the long run. "The retail shop on the street...