Word: standing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sometimes eluded the censors -- and all but the most discerning audiences as well. Now everybody gets the point. Filmmakers are sending a May Day parade of social ills -- class resentments, alcoholism, stifling bureaucracy, domestic brutality, a nationwide streak of malaise -- past the cheers of public opinion. On the reviewing stand, Mikhail Sergeyevich smiles. After all, it's his party...
...young man speaks rapidly, but every syllable reverberates. More than 30 other men and women seated in a large, drab room at a Moscow community center listen quietly. Over the next hour and a half, most of them, giving only their first names, will stand under the bare fluorescent lighting and make the same confession. It is a painful admission to make anywhere, but especially in the Soviet Union, where drinking is legendary and individual accountability has decayed. This is the daily meeting of Moscow Beginners, the first antidrinking group for Soviet citizens that is registered with Alcoholics Anonymous...
...beginning of the rally offered more disruption than organizers expected, as a man carrying a sign that said "Fight and Destroy Jewish Zionist Conspiracy Today. Tomorrow may be too late," was pushed down the steps of University Hall where speakers were to stand...
...spokesperson for Thiemann said yesterdaythat the student action was not likely to changeThiemann's stand...
...ROTC program and especially the individuals involved. Not only have we (I am a member of the Naval ROTC unit) been accused of the desire/practice of killing our fellow human beings, but also of doing so blindly in a desperate struggle to pay for our education. With the strong stand Harvard seems to be taking on other forms of discrimination (for example, discrimination against minorities, women and homosexuals), it is extremely disturbing to find myself as fair and even designated game for anyone wishing to take a crack at the establishment. If a full professor, such as [Dillon Professor...