Word: activists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emulating them. There are other divisions. Black homosexuals charge, with some justice, that the gay rights movement is dominated by whites who are often no less racist than straight society. At the same time they are rejected, and vehemently, by heterosexual blacks. Says Terri Clark, a Washington lesbian activist: "The black community is extremely homophobic, because it feels that the [homosexual] person has been corrupted by the white man's perversions...
...FREEDOMS GAINED by students over the past decade, the ending of the draft, the decentralization of many University decisions, have all cut down on the emotional drive and immediacy of student activist movements. Student groups working for change today tend to choose their goals more carefully and deliberately than their predecessors of ten years ago; and the chances for serious, violent confrontation are much smaller. Post-Watergate kids grew up with a certain thick-skinned cynicism: a lot of The System is venal, maybe most of it, but it's no use bashing your head against it to make...
...South Africa protest and the problems with the Afro-American Department are very different issues. I really feel that the "activist" students, in trying to embrace all the issues, have turned an important moral issue like South Africa into one of the finest examples of knee-jerk liberalism that Harvard has yet seen. Charlotte Salomon...
...plant's press spokesmen, sounding as if they were taken right out of the script for the film The China Syndrome, a thriller that depicts nuclear plant officials as placing greed for profits far above their concern for public safety. But if the movie, starring real-life Antinuclear Activist Jane Fonda, is unfair in its villainous caricature of power-and construction-industry officials, its basic premise will no longer seem so farfetched to those moviegoers until now unattuned to the nation's debate over nuclear power. The premise: that a nuclear power plant is not nearly as accident-proof...
...tests in the atmosphere and were showered with fallout, and workers in nuclear shipyards. In fact, many experts now believe any radiation carries with it some risks, as yet undefined, that may take years to show up. As Harvard University's Nobel-Prizewinning Biologist George Wald, an antinuclear activist, puts it: "Every dose is an overdose. There is no threshold where radiation is concerned. A little radiation does a little harm; a lot does more harm...