Word: burned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uniforms, bedding and food. The reason they do it is clear enough. Says one, Le Chi, a middle-aged maker of mosquito nets: "I protect my city. If during Tet we had had a self-defense, the V.C. would not have come in. Now they can't burn our houses again...
...families know perfectly well what they are missing. Sets may burn in their offices during the World Series or space shots, and many who would not have a receiver in the house watch on the sly at their neighbors'. This suggests that it is frequently not TV per se that is objectionable, but the quality of everyday programming. "What I've seen," says Mrs. Paul Scott, 27, of suburban Los Angeles, "has really frightened me. There's this tremendous emphasis on materialism. And of course the violence." Mrs. Jan Rogers of Tallahassee, a mother of two young...
...oppression of Negroes, draft evasion and the Viet Nam war in terms of a factitiously conceived parallel with the draft riots of 1863. So slipshod is the play that at one point the draft dodgers, who have been presented as militantly antiwar, go racially berserk and are about to burn, maim or kill a dozen Negro orphans. Behind the injected element of fashionable social consciousness lies a cornball ro mance about the orphans' surrogate mother (Shirley Jones) and her erratic spouse (Jack Cassidy), who went off to play Hamlet and ended up as a circus clown. Shirley Jones looks...
...gets the feeling that it co-exists rather uneasily with his constituency of lower-middle class wage-earners in the big industrial cities. Although they affect the same concerns--one farmer from near Harrisburg told me that he was afraid that rioters were going to come and burn down his barn--they have little else in common, and the Wallace movement is related to them in different ways. It depends on the middle-class right-wingers for money, and on the blue-collar workers for the mass support which has transformed Wallace from a regional to a national figure...
...BIGGEST sales are made on the weekends, Avery said, and the best customers are college students. "I'd be most likely to burn a college student," Janet said, "or people from Exeter...