Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the underlying unity of the progressive country style that burgeoned beneath Willie's-and Austin's-banner, its exponents were diverse and farflung. Some were identified with the city's rowdy club scene, like the hard-drinking Jerry Jeff Walker, whose life-style could qualify for federal disaster relief. Others, like Michael Murphey, started in Austin but moved on to other locales. Now living in Evergreen, Colo., Murphey has a cooler sound than many of the progressives and writes lyrics about themes like urban sprawl and the advent of fast-food chains where the Cavalry once...
...camp two years ago certainly had no more to offer in enthusiasm and optimism than this tear's group," McCurdy commented, so if the personnel come through, this could be a banner year...
...crowd of up to 50,000 had been forecast for the Tenth Annual Festival of Life; only some 150 came. "Who was here in 1968?" one speaker asked. About four hands went up. Complained Waitress Janet Dezutter, 36, who had carried a VOTE PIG IN '68 banner in the good old days: "I felt like a grandmother among them. Times have changed. The war is over." Activist Dave Dellinger made a short speech. "Who's Dave Dellinger?" someone asked. After his speech, Dellinger retired to a near North Side loft for a wine-and-cheese party for tenth...
...people." He won-barely. With fewer than half of the voters going to the polls, the mayor's strongholds among the white working-class ethnics, carried the day by 236 votes, 60,250 to 60,014. After his victory speech, Kucinich emerged from the Bondcourt Hotel waving a banner emblazoned: I SURVIVED THE RECALL...
...press. Washington Post Columnist Haynes Johnson wrote: "All those high-sounding statements about journalistic integrity and courageously protecting news sources in defense of the Constitution now appear compromised." Warned former Wall Street Journal Editor Vermont Royster: "Not the least of the risks we run in raising the banner of the First Amendment on every occasion is of appearing arrogant to the people...