Word: bunkerisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group, "Remember, a mother's power is the greatest power on earth!" did not sound very stirring on the first day they marched, when the crowd of women met police several lines deep with riot helmets and nightsticks in their hands, waiting to prevent them from parading down past Bunker Hill Monument in front of the high school. These police are funded by the Commonwealth, ironically a source of authority Charlestown patriots fought and died for two hundred years ago. And the power of these police holds sway over Charlestown, creating an artificial calm around the buses at the high...
...first two weeks of court-ordered busing, at the beginning and end of each school day, Charlestown High School has looked like a besieged citadel. It is almost at the top of a hill, on a block facing the Bunker Hill Monument, which one boycotting student sarcastically predicted would be renamed "Martin Luther King Monument." Scores of policemen--the Tactical Patrol Force, U.S. Marshals, National Guard Helicopter pilots, MDC and city police, state troopers, and even an MDC sharpshooter--have all been on duty, guarding the area around the school to ensure the peaceful loading and unloading of school buses...
...roughly the same time in Boston, about 500 police in riot gear and federal marshals surrounded shabby Charlestown High School, in the shadow of the Bunker Hill Monument. Armed with a high-powered rifle, a police sharpshooter carefully watched a sullen crowd of whites as three yellow buses unloaded 66 black boys and girls. They showed their student identification cards to school officials, passed through an electronic metal detector that checked for weapons, and walked into the gray stone building. Later that day, a band of 100 white youths rampaged down Monument Street, overturning three Volkswagens, and other angry whites...
...tortured soul. Avedon is gentle with Marilyn Monroe, but Oscar Levant is shown as a fading Neanderthal man. The 40-ft.-wide mural of the eleven-member American Mission Council to Saigon (TIME, April 21) during the Viet Nam War (including General Creighton W. Abrams and Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker) can be used as a Rorschach test, asking the viewer to make a judgment of the members' guilt or innocence...
Until late in the week, Abe Beame was struggling to prevent the loss of the power that he had exercised so inadequately during the months of mounting crisis. In the bunker atmosphere of city hall, one die-hard loyalist muttered that Carey and his aides were out to "destroy" the mayor. But the Board of Estimate, the city's principal governing body, decided reluctantly to support the Carey plan as the only alternative to default. In the end, after winning some token concessions from Carey, Beame gave...