Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another respect, the major thrust of the new generation's activity is in a common direction. Academic freedom, political freedom, Free Speech Movement, Freedom Now: all the multifaced, heterogeneous campus agitation ultimately returns to civil rights and to Berkeley. Under the banner of "Freedom," students across the country are experiencing a political renaissance...
...William Higgs, counsel of the Freedom Democratic Party of Mississippi, tells the story of a group of young Vicksburg Negroes who one day marched through that town, carrying a banner emblazoned with "Thank you Commies." When confronted by a delegation of astounded city fathers, the leader of the march explained respectfully that "I don't know what Commies are but the papers give them all the credit for this civil rights business, and that's good enough...
Died. Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary, the Dowager Princess Royal, 67, only daughter of England's King George V, who hoisted high the banner of noblesse oblige, first as a canteen worker in World War I, then as a nurse, still later as World War II hostess of a soldiers' convalescent home (her own), finally as head of Britain's Girl Scouts and Red Cross; of a heart attack; at Harewood House, near Leeds, England...
...loss for a way to advertise. To signal shows, he hit on having each artist design his own flag. His idea was so successful that other galleries followed suit, and Graham, along with Barbara Kulicke, wife of a New York painter and framemaker, founded the Betsy Ross Flag & Banner Co. Before long, 35 artists had made nylon flags to fly outdoors and felt banners to hang indoors like tapestries. So far, shows of their work have traveled to 30 U.S. museums and galleries. Like graphics, the banners are signed and numbered in limited editions, and a collector can afford...
...sewing and deliberate placement of swatches to show a gap-jawed vampire starlet. Richard Lindner blended silk, satin, and leather to stitch together a sensual mix of sultriness and toughness in his portrait of a fiery sorcerer. Larry Rivers spent as much time reproducing his Dutch Masters on a banner as he did painting it. Cheerful, colorful, and casually breezy, they can make a show, or a stroll down a street, into a banner occasion...