Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS is not the first case where the defense of one policy engenders other political action. Martin Luther King could not continue supporting desegregation without expressing his opinions on poverty and the Vietnam War. Blacks were poor and were fighting in the war as a result of their social standing...
...good many baseball fans -- and gamblers -- whether Rose can ever convincingly refute the allegations is almost irrelevant. Charlie Hustle has become a symbol not just of gambling but also of the social toleration of it. Many people declare belligerently that even if all the allegations are true, they cannot see that Rose did anything grievously wrong. Had he bet on the Reds to lose, he would deserve severe punishment. But the Dowd report asserts that so far as anyone can determine, Rose bet on his team only to win -- and, many people ask, What was so terrible about that...
...unions, newspapers, political organizations, professional associations, private businesses -- that prevent the state from exerting a dominating influence in everyday life. Mark Palmer, America's energetic Ambassador to Hungary, argues persuasively that the U.S. should follow Western Europe's example in shoring up this evolution by creating a web of social, political, business and economic links to the people of Eastern Europe...
...also refuses to educate citizens on the nature of homosexuality itself," write the authors. Americans, they hold, continue to harbor distorted perceptions. Among them: people choose to be gay, homosexuals are kinky sex addicts and child molesters, they are untrustworthy and antifamily, and they are suicidally unhappy. Such social attitudes give tacit approval to bigoted behavior, from antigay jokes to violence...
Critics generally agree that Naipaul's fortunes are on a permanent foundation. Irving Howe, no pushover, says, "There can hardly be a writer alive who surpasses him." Alfred Kazin calls Naipaul the "most compelling master of social truth that I know." The writer himself is not overly responsive to praise. He claims to dislike interviews and awards and describes himself simply as a "maker of books." Though England is his base and spiritual home, he prefers the convenience and anonymity of large hotels and jetliners where, 30,000 ft. above the chaos, he can clasp a pillow to his stomach...