Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Malls, even if not used for political recruitment, could serve as centers of some form of organized political debate. These attempts were unfortunately quelled in the mid '70s. A string of law suits surfaced against groups like those who campaigned to boycott Nestles, when the political groups became too vocal...
Many of the students directly involved in these incidents--most of whom are connected with the vocal anti-apartheid and divestment movements--say they were not being harassed by the Law School Administration...
...recent years, the networks have come under increasing fire from the Religious Right for programming that is not "family-oriented." Fortunately for the networks, these conservative groups are still a small, albeit fiercely vocal, minority of the viewing public. Not surprisingly, then, "Dallas," "Dynasty," and the other soaps--all big money-makers for the networks--won't be discontinued soon. At the same time, the networks aren't overjoyed at the steady flow of hate mail from the Bible Belt...
...School of Government. "It's driven by a combination of circumstances: things are bad and getting worse for a significant fraction of the black community in the big cities, and there has been a palpable failure of the old classical strategies to produce results." Loury has become the most vocal member of what might be called the post-civil rights thinkers. The group also includes William Julius Wilson, 49, a University of Chicago sociologist whose insights into class differences within the black population have provoked considerable controversy; Robert Woodson, 48, head of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, which coordinates...
...were the Board's intent to "quieten" the campus by their actions, they should seriously reconsider. So long as the stark, moral issues of apartheid and Harvard's investment policy remain, there will be protest--and it will be as unremitting, vocal and publicized as ever. Furthermore, if it is perceived that the Board was deliberately and unjustly heavy-handed in their treatment of students-if it is felt that they seek not only to curtail "improper" conduct but also to chill ligitimate dissent, few students, I believe, will stand...