Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from Proposition 1-2-3. As we lose affordable housing, we lose residents and the businesses, restaurants and shops which they patronize. So removal from rent control through condo conversion, whether from within (by current tenants) or without (by new tenants or by landlords) has far reaching economic and social results. The entire neighborhood fabric of Cambridge would change...
Scholars must reexamine the relationships between historians and the subjects they study, a professor of social science told a crowd of about 200 yesterday in the speech that ended Women's History Week...
Chicago undergraduates must take four year-long courses in the humanities, social sciences, biological sciences and physical sciences...
...Lemons, released last week, is a departure from the smoothly orchestrated Skylarking. Instead of presenting gently coasting instrumentation, the group returns to the hard-hitting style of 1984's The Big Express and its earlier albums. Oranges and Lemons features a fair number of XTC's traditional energetic social statements, although it does show a suspicious tendency toward bouncy, top-40ish love songs and includes, not surprisingly, one or two utter failures...
...band is most successful on Oranges and Lemons when it does what it does best: performing hard-hitting rhythms accompanied by Partridge's elastic vocals and social statements. "Poor Skeleton Steps Out" is an excellent example of XTC's characteristically choppy beat, ehhanced by xylophone effects in this anti-sexist, anti-racist song about the confines of human flesh. This theme is continued in "Across This Antheap," a song which criticizes humanity's tribalism with lyrics like "Still segregating 'cause we insects are too proud" and "The stars are laughing at us as we crawl on and on across this...