Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students differ on how thoroughly homosexuality is integrated into the Yale social scene, but agree that it is relatively easy to be openly gay at the New Haven school. On a recent weekend, as rain soaked the Gothic campus, many students discussed their experiences within the social fabric of Yale...
Although they live off-campus, Chinn and Franklin say they feel a part of the Yale undergraduate social scene, attending campus parties and having a mixed group of friends...
...nation's political debate, riding and guiding the pendulum swing from the liberal Zeitgeist of the 1960s to the conservative climate of the '80s. Yet for all the talk of a Reagan Revolution, for all the President's personal popularity and success in changing tax and spending policies, the social agenda of the New Right has remained largely unfulfilled. When he nominated Bork, Reagan said that the judge "shares my view" of the proper role of the court...
...struggle is nothing less than a fight for the soul of American society. Evangelists like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson speak of a Bork appointment as a kind of salvation for a morally misguided Supreme Court. Exulted Human Events, a right-wing journal: "The President . . . could advance his entire social agenda -- from tougher criminal penalties, to curbing abortion-on- demand, to sustaining religious values in the schools, etc. -- far beyond his term in office...
Those rulings have reshaped American life -- which is precisely Bork's complaint. He accuses the recent court of liberal "judicial activism," using its power to accomplish social goals that have eluded -- or been opposed by -- legislatures. His own philosophy, he claims, is based on fealty to "neutral principles," the notion that judges should not formulate their legal principles based on the outcome they will produce in the particular case being heard. And yet, as his opponents point out, Bork's record makes him appear to be result-oriented in his own way: in almost all of the court rulings...