Word: spokesmanship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take Back the Night is not an appropriate platform for male spokesmanship. If men want to attend the event, or assist in planning it, their role must be one of support, not leadership. It is not a night for men to speak out. And it is certainly not a night for men to speak out about how women can regain control over their bodies...
Just as this is not a night for male spokesmanship, it is also not a night for male leadership. Organizers did ask men to walk at the back of the procession so that women could lead the march alone, but several men disregarded that request and walked directly behind the leading banner. Before there can be true equality between the sexes, men need to learn what it means to follow the lead of women...
...Harlem can afford the book's thirty-dollar pricetag. But the biographical importance of this collection outweighs any criticisms about its format. It is rare thing when a human being progresses as far as Baldwin--from clumsy uneducated prose to vivid poetry, from confusion and despair to strength and spokesmanship, and from the resentful mind of a slave to the humanitarian outlook of a true leader. It is a rarer thing still when the public is allowed to witness the birth of such a great philosopher...
...personally close to the President-elect, he has his confidence. As National Security Adviser, Allen expects to brief Reagan on a regular basis, probably daily in the company of Meese and Chief of Staff James Baker. He may travel a bit, but he plans to avoid "spokesmanship." Says Allen: "If the NSC attempts to manage day-to-day events, it will be a case of here we go again. But that will not be the design of our staff...
...Viet Nam). It derives from that analogy an immediacy that one does not often find in films set in the dimming past. But there is a larger success: this very traditional-looking film is dramatically taut, full of strongly developed characters who never deteriorate into good-guy, bad-guy spokesmanship. There is no doubt that the soldiers committed the crimes with which they are charged. But their defense attorney (well played by Jack Thompson) argues that it is both a miscarriage of justice and an act of hypocrisy to single out these men for crimes no different from those committed...