Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...that reason, retrospectives have an automatic edge over group shows. Unity is built in, whereas multi-artist conglomerations often contain "representative" pieces by artists whose works have nothing more in common than the walls on which they hang...
Lord Underhill and other moderates argued that infiltration of the party by any group with its own "program, principles, and policy" was expressly prohibited by Labor's rules. By suppressing a report on Militant's documents, the N.E.C. rejected this argument by a vote of 14 to 12. In another rebuke to the party's center-right, the N.E.C. reinstated "Red Ted" Heslin, who was thrown out of the party a year ago on charges that he espoused revolution...
Labor's N.E.C. is dominated by leftists; their guiding light is proletarian aristocrat Tony Benn, an M.P. who aspires to succeed Callaghan as party leader. The internecine squabbling has led to fear that the party could split into two irreconcilable segments: a centrist group of Social Democrats, some of whom favor an alliance with the Liberal Party, and an openly leftist party that would tolerate the Red Moles and other extreme Marxists. A poll by the London Times showed that 54% of Britons favor a new centrist party in the political lineup. The N.E.C.'s high-handedness...
...four, with their respective numbers of death row prisoners, are Texas (130), Oklahoma (25), Idaho (1) and New Mexico (0). Florida (144), the only state with a higher count than Texas, is also the likeliest addition to the group...
...Berkeley, a group of female sociology students at the University of California banded together as Women Organized Against Sexual Harassment (WOASH) and waged a yearlong campaign against Elbaki Hermassi, an assistant professor of sociology. He was charged with fondling and propositioning 13 students, offering a good grade in exchange for sex, and writing an unfavorable letter of recommendation for a student who refused his sexual advances. Charges were brought to Hermassi's department chairman. The professor was reprimanded orally, and according to the university the behavior stopped. But WOASH dismissed the reprimand as a "slap on the wrist...