Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student occupation and one of the most tumultuous fortnights in Harvard's history. The Mass Hall takeover--carried out by the Pan-African Liberation Committee (PALC)--and the Corporation move that precipitated it were only the most salient events in a period when banner headlines were the norm and vocal activism a way of life. Consider the following events, some related, others one-shot happenings emblematic of a turbulent...
...tendency to romanticize the protesters of the early '70s, those who gave their energy--and in a few cases, their lives--to combat various Establishments And, on the whole, they are right to idolize these activists for their commitment to a cause and for their advocacy of nonviolent yet vocal protest. Without the radicals, goes the generally persuasive left-wing interpretation, the Vietnam disaster would have been that much bloodier and the U.S. pullout that much later, if it ever materialized And Richard Nixon might never have been forced from office...
...time CARP had a very high profile on campus due in no small part to the vocal protestations of Panzer, then Yale CARP leader, against all forms of leftist thought and we suppose, thought in general...
...Senate this week considers Reagan's latest defense appropriations bill, this one for $180.2 billion, grumblings can be heard from members who are troubled by the massive buildup. Defense specialists like Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.) have been vocal, through largely unheeded, advocates of a more discriminating approach to defense spending. We hope these misgivings about unbridled military spending will lead Congress to examine the Pentagon's requests with an eye toward getting rid of systems that are too costly, unreliable, or utterly useless. Many of the Pentagon's boondoggles are listed in April's Washington Monthly magazine, which describes...
...will lose British popular support for America's nuclear policies and deployment, and for its European, its NATO and its Soviet policies." In fact, the U.S. has privately told both sides that if negotiations collapse, it will openly back Britain. But then it would lose Argentina's vocal support for U.S. Central American policy and alienate much of Latin America, even if Argentina does not follow through on its threats to seek Soviet political and economic support for its efforts to hold on to the islands...