Word: berrigan
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...conspiracy prosecutions of the Chicago Seven and antiwar demonstrators like Father Philip Berrigan, which were based on FBI evidence, were dubious propositions from the start...
Others would be people like W.H. Auden, William O. Douglas, Father Theodore Hesburgh, Earl Warren, Lady Bird Johnson, one of the Berrigan brothers, Ramsey Clark, Sissy Farenthold or Joseph Biden, the youngest man ever elected to the U.S. Senate...
Burghardt was sent to the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Conn., where he became friendly with another prisoner, the Rev. Daniel Berrigan. The two jogged together and discussed the theater and Viet Nam. In Absurd Convictions, Modest Hopes, Berrigan wrote about Burghardt: "This young black resister...had been an actor and TV personality...He came in like a Roman candle, with all his talents exploding around...
...Upper West Side, housed the studious here, the activists there. Beards and long hair vied with modest sideburns, turtlenecks and slacks with cutoffs and bare feet. Some places became crash pads and beer-and-coffee houses for local activists (a number of the Woodstock Jesuits were active Berrigan antiwar allies). More than a few of the many visitors were young women. But the surviving Jesuit colleges are not that much different. Their seminarians live fraternity-style in neighborhood houses or apartments, receive monthly checks just as those in Manhattan do, come and go as they please. What Woodstock lacked, though...
...precarious edge of the reader's tolerance, never quite falling off. For whenever the author leans too far in the direction of obscenity-which is frequently--he bounces right back with a metaphor or reference to feed any appetite Jackie Kennedy and James Joyce. Cyrano de Bergerac and the Berrigan Brothers. While Mays and Richard Wagner all raise their heads at one point of another in the parenthetical Who's Who that attends this narrative...