Word: vital
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Divestment protesters have split up only to work on other, equally vital issues, where they believe they can make a difference. Many of them aren't working any less hard than they were before, although their chicness may have suffered...
...urban renewal had its rearguard critics, and vital downtowns had their influential advocates. The right laws were passed. Cases were won. In 1965 New York City passed the Landmarks Preservation Law, setting up a commission that could restrict any changes to designated historic buildings; a year later, Congress enacted its version, which established the National Register of Historic Places and provided preservation grants to states...
That's just what Chin's play is all about--vital characters who say what they ought to keep to themselves, characters full of sound and fury, but lacking in sense...
...birds have flown away to a new issue, the unionization of campus clerical and technical workers. Although both issues are, of course, important, it is discouraging to see that protesters think they must move en masse, and that interest in a newer and more chic cause can leave another vital one unattended...
...hard to understand how protesters of purportedly deep moral conviction could so quickly drop their beliefs. That when one vital branch of protest gets chilly, they can so quickly fly to another...