Word: brights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brooklyn's Raymond Street Jail: Dirty, crowded, uncomfortable; run by not-very-bright attendants who, though not sadistic, administer beatings dispassionately, as a way to relieve their tedium. (The authorities evidently agreed with Angelvin's assessment, and the jail has since been razed...
Dangers Real and Rumored. The police found foes on every side, from naive demonstrators to wiseacre news men. The cops claimed that the bright TV lights blinded them and charged that the ubiquitous peering cameras emboldened demonstrators. Cameramen and reporters believed that the cops deliberately slugged them and wrecked their equipment in an effort to thwart coverage of police brutality. Fully 60 of the 300 newsmen assigned to cover Chicago's streets and parks "were involved in incidents resulting in injury to themselves, damage to their equipment, or their arrest...
...black flag of anarchy," a "red flag" and a "Viet Cong flag." Some witnesses state it was a suit of red underwear or a red armband or a rag. On films of the incident, it appears to be "a knotted red cloth or a girl's bright red slip." Police, after a hard fight, pulled down the object, but not even the cops know what it was or what happened...
Northeastern is also opening its season tonight, but its prospects are not as bright as Harvard's. They are young (only five seniors) and what their coach Jim Bell calls "a good skating club...
...bodies to express emotions." She asked them to choose an emotion. "Happiness," one of the boys suggested: so for a while they were happy, then thankful, then obsessed, then lonely, and then sad. "I can't seem to do this," said a tall boy in corduroy pants and a bright polka dot shirt. "There isn't enough space. I wish we were on a football field." The leader of the group tried to help him, while the others paired off to express themselves...