Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wallace was doing well on his own. In a swing through the East and Midwest last week-"dangerous territory," in the words of Aide Dick Smith-he continued to draw big crowds. Some 12,000 heard him speak in Flint, Mich. The only disappointment was Chicago, where an eight-block motorcade through the Loop drew only 50,000; Nixon, by contrast, pulled at least 250,000 a month earlier. Almost everywhere there were hecklers, brandishing such signs as "If You Liked Hitler, You'll Love Wallace" and "Wallace Is Rosemary's Baby...
Composer Carl Ruggles has had a writer's block that has stretched out for nearly all of his 92 years. He toiled for ages on a single work. Writing with crayons on brown wrapping paper, he would trace out his python-long melodies, then weave dissonance into dissonance, then unravel the whole thing and start again. His long opera The Sunken Bell (1923) occupied his time for 13 years. And just when it was near completion, Ruggles threw the score aside in a furious fit of dissatisfaction and abandoned it forever. That helps to explain why he has produced...
...himself as a "Southern moderate." He had voted against most of the watered-down civil rights measures of the fifties, and tended to vote with the "conservative coalition" more often than not during that time, but he avoided the rabid racism and extreme conservatism of the deep Southern block...
...Block clubs" have been organized in some white areas adjoining Chicago's South Side ghetto. Suspicious of interlopers, the clubs keep track of autos passing through the streets. They also follow up on arrests and prosecution of offenders. Joe Lenoci, 35, a factory production controller who heads one block club, says that he is not a racist or a fanatic. He just wants "the law changed so that police are not so handicapped." Lenoci is uncertain what new powers he would give the police, and he cannot name the Supreme Court decisions he objects...
Consequently, the Soviets moved to block West Germany's diplomatic and economic penetration into Eastern Europe. At the same time, in a cleverly co-ordinated set of moves, the Soviets have made it far harder for the West Germans at home to keep their own political house in order. One quandary for Bonn is the existence of the far-rightist National Democrat Party, which now attracts some 9% of the West German electorate. For months the government has been contemplating legal action to suppress the N.D.P. But now that the Soviets have attacked it, West German political leaders...