Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looking like a religious conflict. In fact, the conflict is ideological, not religious. The political status quo in Africa, like that in any other part of the world, requires religious legitimation. If the churches threaten to withhold it, one or both of two things happen. Either the more out-spoken church leaders are removed (sometimes by assassination, as in the case of Archbishop Luwum of Uganda) or the political system actively encourages the coming to prominence of a traditional religious cult, such as in Kenya in 1969, Chad in 1974, Equitorial Guinea in 1976, and Madagascar at the present time...
...crucial role in accelerating the processes of change by increasing pressure on the U.S. corporations operating in South Africa. They must be compelled to play a far more active role in helping to remove the wails of discrimination in our country. Far too many of these corporations have spoken some very good words but continue to drag their feet when it comes to meeting their obligations, seemingly content to reap the profits extended to them by a system that exploits the majority of the country's people...
...still runs a pathetically distant second in advertising to the Times, which controls 93% of the Los Angeles market's total, v. 1% for the Herald-Examiner. "When I joined this paper, it was puffing along at one mile per hour," concedes the almost inaudibly soft-spoken Bellows. "Now I've got it up to about three miles per hour...
...Stacy and her mother set out on the 45-minute subway ride from their home to the Eastern Women's Center clinic on Manhattan's East 60th Street. They do not speak to each other on the crowded train. That whole week, for that matter, they have spoken little about the abortion. "I figured she was upset or something and she didn't want to scare me," Stacy says later of her mother...
...final spoken line in the film is Voight's assertion, while describing the horrors of the war to a group of high school students, that "we have a decision to be made here." That decision is whether or not to continue to blindly pursue our rather dubious war goals. It is a question, of course, that runs thoughout the movie, right from the opening scene in which a bunch of handicapped vets, lounging around a pool table, are discussing whether they'd go again if they had the chance to do it over. One guy explains why he would, much...