Word: activistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...line, turreted castles in her background and the whiff of scandal in her past. But the portrait of a romance-novel heroine slips out of focus with a closer look, for that same Lady Antonia is an internationally established historian, the author of best-selling biographies and a social activist. She is mother of six, protective wife of renowned playwright Harold Pinter, and also dashes off detective stories, wafts along the British TV celeb circuit, and displays an admirable tennis serve...
...Activist Antonia is deeply committed to writers imprisoned for their written words. "I feel passionately about this," she declares, and she leads the cause for English PEN. Holroyd, former PEN president, sings her praises: "She knows when to press and when not to; she can let loose the dogs on them, or she can charm them. Pinter tends to blow his top; she's got a great deal of common sense." Arthur Miller, longtime advocate for imprisoned writers, concurs: "She is very effective...
...Neighborhoods are at an extreme disadvantage at playing ball with these guys," said Daniel E. Geer, co-chair of the Cambridge Citizens for Liveable Neighborhoods, an area activist group...
...does not look to be an easy triumph. Operation Just Cause was well planned but flawed. Can Panama's new U.S.-installed leaders run the country? Manuel Noriega may have lost control of himself as well as his country. Parcel bombs kill a Southern judge and a civil rights activist...