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...FORCE more damaging to a social movement than strong opposition is vehement action by fringe supporters. Both the moderate left and right are often stymied in their efforts to reach the center by the drastic actions of extremists. Consequently, it seems that passage of the Nuclear Free Cambridge referendum could significantly stall the momentum locally, statewide, and maybe even nationally for arms control and the nuclear freeze...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Dangerous Law | 11/1/1983 | See Source »

While competition was scant in some uncontested districts, other Houses had lively campaigns, with posters and slogans ranging from the vehement to the light-hearted...

Author: By Mary Humes and The CRIMSON Staff, S | Title: 87 Gain Council Seats As Voter Turnout Sags | 10/11/1983 | See Source »

...eloquent argument and, at first glance, a credible one. But how can this sensitive, seemingly humane outlook be reconciled with the reality of the right to life movement and its social implications? Certainly it stands in painful contradiction to the violence peretrated by vehement anti-abortionists; brandishing bloody fetuses at Congressional hearings, invading or even firebombing abortion clinics, and the kidnapping of a couple who ran a clinic...

Author: By Holls A. ldelson., | Title: Extraordinary Politicians | 9/24/1983 | See Source »

...Such a mission would be worthless from the U.S. standpoint, since American satellites and the RC-135s provide far more detailed intelligence than any modified 747 could. The U.S. has never sent out a 747 on a spy mission, Air Force sources insist. Korean President Chun Doo Hwan was vehement in his denial of the spying charge. Said he: "Nobody on earth but the Soviet authorities would believe that a 70-year-old man or a four-year-old child would be allowed to fly in a civilian plane that had the objective of violating Soviet airspace to engage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Explaining the Inexplicable | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

...images including a man slashing a woman's eyeball with a razor. In 1930, L'Age d'Or (The Golden Age), with its brutal attacks on Roman Catholicism and bourgeois morality, established the ideological foundation for most of Buñuel's later films. A vehement antifascist, he left Spain in 1938, later won a Cannes Festival Grand Prix for Viridiana (1961) and an Academy Award for his scathing The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972). He said his films contained no deliberate symbolism but hedged, "Perhaps there are other meanings unknown by myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 8, 1983 | 8/8/1983 | See Source »

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