Word: actions
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...solemnly proclaiming the end of an ideological era in which "fundamental political problems of the industrial revolution have been solved.... This very triumph of the democratic social revolution in the West ends domestic politics for those intellectuals who must have ideologies or utopias to motivate them to political action." Even while, as Lipset also declared, it was almost universally believed that "the workers have achieved industrial and political citizenship," that "class conflict is minimized," if not altogether eliminated. Yet, even at the same conjuncture it was possible for another scholar observing the same forces in the same societies to arrive...
Paul said last night that Boll did not disagree with her presentation at the fact-finding conference before the commission, where she detailed his refusal to admit her because she was a woman. He reportedly said that Paul had "threatened" him when she was rebuffed-an action which she denied...
...Board demanded immediate action by Corcoran on Model Cities pay raises that have been waiting on Corcoran's desk for three weeks, a day-care center that has been pending ten weeks, and the Public Service Careers contract passed three weeks ago by the City Council...
...eight of them. Seven of the eight are conducting their own defense. Their message is a relatively simple one-to open to the judge, the jury, to those in the courtroom and to those beyond, the facts of their lives which led them to feel compelled to take an action against three very oppressive institutions: the Selective Service System, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the United States Attorney's Office. They are striving consistently inside the courtroom and out to have people judge both their actions and the reasons that motivated them to destroy government property...
Across the street from the courthouse, the Presbyterian church serves as a center of community support. On the evening of the second day of the trial, Attorney William Kunstler spoke to a crowd of 700 in the church hall. Of the defendants and their action he said...