Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flamboyant Anthony Benn--and the more moderate group headed by former Exchequer Chancellor Dennis Healey. The balancing act has not produced a coherent opposition to Thatcher, but, rather, seems to have wedded Foot to the most awkward and alienating position on every recent issue, from his vocal support of striking unions this summer to his wavering over the Falklands expedition. Added to the Bermondsey election debacle, these persistent problems have prompted some Labour Party leaders to urge Foot to hand the mantle to Healey, leaving the party time to rebuild before the general elections...
...exchange had an all too familiar ring. Once again a small but vocal number of U.S. legislators were expressing their skepticism at Reagan Administration policy in El Salvador. Once again the Administration was insisting that its combination of support for electoral democracy, social reform and human rights, together with sizable doses of military aid ($26 million for fiscal 1983, $86 million proposed for 1984), was the only solution that could prevent a Communist takeover...
...Cambridge in a unique partnership between drama and academia, the controversy lasted from September until May. Most student dramatists opposed the experiment, fearing that sharing the Loeb building and stage with a professional troupe would inhibit experimentation and curtail student opportunities. And when the deal finally went through, vocal opponents may well have taken comfort in the thought that the contract mandated a full-scale review four years later a review which, according to Faculty rules, could result in anything from a rubber stamp on the arrangement to its complete repeal...
Several council members were highly vocal last night in their opposition to the resolution, questioning whether Harvard should-as other schools have already done-effectively subvert the purpose of the federal regulations...
...civil rights lawyer. Like them, he is scheduled to teach a course on civil rights Like them, he is not interested in a permanent position at Harvard, And like them, he will be visiting a school with two minority professors on a faculty of 72 and a vocal minority student organization. The Chicano professor from UCLA faces a pressured atmosphere at the Law School, from which he graduated nine years...