Word: avidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Obey the Law. An advocate of militant passive resistance against segregation. Pennsylvania-born Lawson is the son of a Methodist minister. He served a year in federal penitentiaries as a conscientious objector, later spent three years in I ndia as a missionary and avid student of Gandhi's techniques of nonviolence ("Gandhi helped me to see the Christian life"). To earn a bachelor of divinity degree, he entered Vanderbilt in 1958, organized Negro students on the side...
...Only a month ago, the family's hot blood ran true-and freely-when Patriarch Norval Raymond, 69, blasted a son-in-law in the face with a shotgun. Yet one Raymond seemed free of the curse of violence: short (5 ft. 5 in.), wiry Dan, 43, an avid hunter who liked his outdoor job as a pipeline worker for a natural gas company and lived with his wife and four children in tiny (pop. 300) Chalk Hill...
...young music student in the '20s, Composer Blitzstein (Regina, The Cradle Will Rock) was an avid follower of the Sacco-Vanzetti case. He felt, like many other Americans, that the two anarchists were innocent and "were not being executed for what they were tried for" (shooting down a paymaster and his guard in a 1920 payroll holdup in South Braintree, Mass.). In 1932 Blitzstein used the theme for a one-act opera titled Condemned. The work was never produced (it was burdened with, among other things, four choruses), and Blitzstein says he forgot all about it. Last summer...