Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ACROSS KIRKLAND Street from the Science Center is the Lawrence Lowell Lecutre Hall, an empty, old, red-brick building with a lot of potential. The College has no real student union, and the empty lecture hall might become a good place to focus for the College's social life...
First, the feminists. Betty Friedan, for one, thought the very concept of the trial sullied by its subservience to "masculine" social theory: "This whole thing has to be taken out of the realm of contract law that is based on the male model of corporate stocks and commodity trading," she told The New York Times."If the woman wants to keep the baby, you would have to assume that the claim of the woman who has carried the baby for nine months should take precedence over the claim of the man who has donated one of his 50 million sperm...
...answer, alas, is many. Last week a tough-talking Corazon Aquino symbolically snapped the olive branch of peace she had extended to the Communist rebels throughout her 13-month presidency. "Police and military action, not social and economic reforms, is the immediate solution to terrorist acts," she told an audience at the Philippine Military Academy. Earlier that day she had pledged to "smite the foe on the left and the right." Said Aquino: "I want a string of honorable military victories." Her speech represented a dramatic shift in tactics aimed at ending both the 18-year Communist insurgency and coup...
...earlier successes as an advertising executive and promoter who had already parlayed one personal experience (owning an auto dealership) into a book called Don't Get Taken Every Time, which is now in its 17th printing. He's also no novice on the celebrity circuits, both the Hollywood and social fast tracks. Still, when he got the idea of renovating Remar, book publishers didn't nibble, though his old buddy George Plimpton was encouraging. "He suggested I could be in a little worse shape, and began pouring taller drinks and urging me to eat more fatty meals and to stay...
Willy Brandt, who served as West German Chancellor from 1969 to 1974, has always enjoyed a reputation as a moody, unpredictable politician. He lived up to that billing last week when he abruptly quit his post as chairman of the Social Democratic Party. A stone-faced Brandt informed his colleagues he was resigning his position because of the "internal criticisms" of his leadership...