Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Woods also aligns herself with the folk movement insofar as she is concerned with social issues. She admits a lack of "overt political stuff" in her lyrics. But she says she believes artists should work to solve problems in their communities, paraphrasing Bob Dylan by saying, "I believe in bringing it back home." As a member of Rick Berlin, Woods has performed in a series of benefits for Boston's homeless...
Just what are the Republicans accusing the Democrats of in this term liberal? Of Social Security? Of Medicare? Of farm price supports? Of civil rights? Of programs to clean up the environment? Of friendly relations with the Soviets? It's precisely because George Bush has no quarrel with the essence of the liberal agenda that he's basing his campaign on obscure irrelevancies such as prison-furlough policy and an ancient controversy over the Pledge of Allegiance...
...realize. Democrats are so afraid of appearing "liberal" that they rejected a platform proposal to increase taxes on people making more than $100,000 a year. They wince as Bush scores points off of Dukakis' recent 5 cents-a-pack increase in the Massachusetts cigarette tax. Meanwhile, the annual Social Security surplus is contributing $40 billion a year toward covering Reagan's deficits, thanks to a Reagan-endorsed 1983 increase in the Social Security tax -- a flat tax on wages that exempts dividends, interest, profits and all income over $45,000 a year...
Rossiaud's book doesn't present a cheery view of the role of women in the Middle Ages. Prostitutes were mere laborers for the common good, functioning without status, clout or social position. And he shows that they flourished only because taking them away would have made matters worse, as violence and unwed mothers plagued the countryside...
...does show that prostitutes were the propagators of a sometimes new social order. Aggressive women who had no need to respond to social mores, they offended the male dominated society and led the way, more often than not, for the rise of the women in the French towns...