Word: volunteerist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republican victory. Even before feminism took hold, the G.O.P. had a large core of female party activists ready to step into high-profile posts. In part this was a function of demographics: Waspy, well-to-do women tended to be Republicans, and often had the free time and volunteerist spirit to delve into party politics. A generation of such women has now matured. But the G.O.P. is likely to lose this edge soon: the Democrats have more young up-and-comers around the country...
...ruffle the models' clothes until someone devised a stiffener to make them lie flat. Unclothing was even more of a challenge in a more circumscribed age. When a director broke the modesty barrier by offering to pay nude models $10 a night, critics objected to this violation of volunteerist esprit de corps. Nowadays women and men of all ages are only too willing to bare all for Laguna. Indeed, a 1969 nude volunteer named Cathe Mennen is enshrined as a heroine of the pageant. While she posed in a statuary group of Pygmalion and Galatea, a pigeon mistook...
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