Word: antiwar
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DIED. DENISE LEVERTOV, 74, activist-poet who meditated on the politics of the household and state, writing such fierce antiwar collections as To Stay Alive; of lymphoma; in Seattle...
DIED. GRAYSON KIRK, 94, imperious former president of Columbia University; in Bronxville, N.Y. After he was appointed in 1953, the university's endowments quadrupled. For all his financial acumen, Kirk grossly miscalculated, when he called in 1,000 police in 1968 to quell antiwar protests. Hundreds of students were arrested and dozens injured...
...hard to think of a better use of celebrity than saving teenagers from ruining their lives, even if the celebrity comes with more baggage than could ever fit in an overhead bin. While the rest of us have shed our antiwar activism along with our bell bottoms, images of Fonda in her shag cut in Hanoi, along with stills of her as the sex kitten Barbarella, are the staples of every profile. But because we didn't let her grow up, she may have greater appeal to vulnerable teenagers than the icy perfection of a Nancy Reagan urging, "Just...
...long and winding road but, after a 16-year battle, the FBI released some of its files on John Lennon to University of California at Irvine professor Jonathan Wiener. The files include the incendiary revelations that Lennon met with antiwar activists, did nothing illegal and knew someone who had a parrot that said, "Right...
...whole thing was a set-up, Einhorn assured followers. Through his antiwar research and with contacts that extended beyond the Iron Curtain, he simply knew too much about weapons development, psychic research and global conspiracies. Maddux was murdered to discredit him. The CIA, the KGB, who knew? The most damning evidence against him was also the most obvious proof of his innocence: Would a man as smart as he murder his girlfriend and keep the evidence at his bedside...