Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When about 100 Mather students last week took pink triangles to hang in their windows in order to show support for the gay community, other students said that the show was poorly timed because the Mather community was already upset by the earlier events and debates that had occured in the house. But shouldn't those who support gay rights take advantage of the existing dialogue in order to make their position known...
...uproar over Salman Rushdie's controversial novel The Satanic Verses has sparked protests in the past two weeks at both Princeton and Columbia, where readings were held in support of Rushdie's right to free speech...
...Khomeini: "We should not, for the sake of pleasing several sellout liberals, act in a way that gives the impression that the Islamic Republic of Iran is deviating from its principled positions." Suddenly Rushdie's purported blasphemy seemed minor compared with the sins of Iranian officials who had dared support a renewal of ties with the decadent West...
...lofty reputation. It requires the same concentration of effort and narrative skills needed for a full-length feature but, without the distractions of spectacle or subplot, makes flaws more obvious. In these circumstances, Scorsese and Allen have a natural advantage. Their core following is not big enough to support the grand movie gesture, and they have learned the art of compression that seems to bore, if not actually depress, their ever thrashing colleague...
While the threatened author of The Satanic Verses remains in hiding, Khomeini aims his ire at those "misled liberals" who dare to support renewed relations with the West. -- The Soviet Foreign Minister storms the Middle East, trying to win friends and influence adversaries. -- The bumpy road to Soviet elections. -- A Japanese Emperor is laid to rest and so is a turbulent...