Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FITZGERALD combines smooth writing and keen journalistic observation in her tale of four such attempts by contemporary Americans to start all over again. FitzGerald's best chapters are the ones exploring the Castro and Sun City. We witness the excitement and joy of the gay community as social values relax enough so that they can "come out of the closet" and settle in one place--their place--to live and to start over. FitzGerald takes us into the life of their community, from its parades to costume balls. With her, we take part in their joyous spirit of release...
...seat in 1986 after representing the Eighth Congressional District for 30 years. As speaker during the last decade of his tenure in the House, O'Neill raised his forceful voice against those who would forget our society's disadvantaged. He led the opposition to Reagan Administration plans that threatened Social Security and aid for education. When Reagan's popularity was at its height, O'Neill's opposition was politically costly, and the speaker was mercilessly lampooned in cartoons. Yet O'Neill's determination to maintain government as the champion of the disadvantaged never waivered. The nation is greater...
Kapferer assumes that rumors, which he defines rather woodenly as nonofficial information circulating within a social group, are not just idle tales. Long-lived rumors of snakes or spiders coming out of clumps of bananas or children's teddy bears, he believes, probably have a strong xenophobic component -- fear of Africa, where bananas grow, or Asia, where stuffed animals are made...
Hand, concluding that the history, social-studies and home-economics texts purvey man-centered views at the expense of belief in God, enjoined use of the books in any class except a "comparative-religion course that treats all religions equivalently." The next day school officials in Mobile called in the books, including the eleventh grade's sole history text...
...model of how unsoftheaded the approach now is. Students must not only dream up the projects (which now number 50) but write detailed proposals for how to fund and operate them. Last week the city of Cambridge awarded a $23,000 contract to the association, rather than other social service agencies, to run a 20-bed shelter for the homeless...