Word: atticas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much had happened in the interval. The Viet Nam War had ended for Americans. A comrade-in-arms, described by Alpert's attorney as her lover, had been killed in 1971 as lawmen stormed New York's Attica state prison to quell a convict uprising. Over the years Alpert, a Swarthmore graduate and ardent feminist, concluded that the radical movement was male dominated and sexist. She also tired of life as a fugitive. "I did not want to spend my life hiding out," she told Federal District Judge Milton Pollack. Accompanied by her parents (her father...
Into this void has stepped, Hush Puppies and all, Ramsey Clark. Ever since he resigned as U.S. Attorney General in the Johnson Administration, Clark has sought out one liberal cause after another. He has championed Eskimos and Indians, the Berrigan brothers and the Attica rebels, New York Detective Frank Serpico and vanishing wildlife. There is a joke on the liberal cocktail circuit that if Clark were told that the "nauga" was an endangered species, he would demand a ban on the sale of Naugahyde furniture. He seemed to be too much of a causemonger for even cause-prone New Yorkers...
...Republican from Virginia, called on Rockefeller to withdraw. Some conservatives hold a grudge for his refusal to back Senator Barry Goldwater for President in 1964; some liberals blame him in part for the deaths of 32 prisoners and eleven hostages during the 1971 revolt at New York's Attica Prison. It seemed possible that the two groups might form a coalition to oppose the nomination, but not until after the election...
...trip to Hanoi, where he audaciously attacked U.S. policies in the capital of the enemy. Before Watergate erupted, he lashed out at the Nixon Administration's anticrime and wiretapping policies. He defended the Rev. Philip Berrigan in his conspiracy trial. He allowed Herbert Blyden, a leader in the Attica rebellion, to second his nomination for the Senate at the state Democratic convention. By recently flying to Cuba to chat with Fidel Castro, Javits may have won back some of the deserting liberals. But to maintain his narrowing lead, he must hope that moderates and conservatives in both parties distrust...
Boston Film Festival. A very respectable series, including too many films to list here. The highlight is perhaps Louis Malle's Lacombe, Lucien, a new film about French collaboration during World War II. But also Attica, a Laughton film, a DeBroca film, Max von Sydow as Steppenwolf, a Boorman film, Monty Python, and the new Bunuel. Call the Orson Welles for the schedule...