Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrote Lieut. Calley a letter telling him that I am praying that he will soon be free. He fought for me and for all of us in beautiful America. He did what he thought best on the battlefield. He did not burn his draft card or say he was a conscientious objector...
...most tense moment of the day came as the crowd at the base of the Monument swelled to around 100,000 and the music had not yet begun. Demonstrators ripped off the American flags which fly from poles around the Monument, and set fire to everything that would burn, including portable toilets...
...That picture in there of GI's storming the ramparts. That isn't the way it is. That picture makes me physically sick. We don't storm villages in Vietnam, we burn them; and these aren't soldiers we kill, but women and children. Do you know what a free fire zone is? Do you know that 60 per cent of all babies born in defoliated areas are malformed...
...that they do and that they would one day be identified. Researchers are already convinced that schizophrenia has some genetic basis, although, as Psychologist David Rosenthal explains, it is not the disease that is inherited but a tendency to it. As a match must be struck before it will burn, so must the tendency be triggered by something in the environment. No one is yet sure whether the trigger is cultural or familial, electrical or chemical, but some investigators back the chemical theory on the ground that certain drugs enable schizophrenics to live outside institutions, at least for short periods...
...Burn the jacket, tear off the covers, excommunicate the author, and erase every proper noun, a book about Chicago remains, beyond any mistaking, a book about Chicago. The essential juices of the place somehow force any author to write with a special accent about the only city on earth where the likes ol Big Bill Thompson and Al Capone could coexist as civic leaders. In Chicago, there is indeed a certain interchangeability between politics and other lines of work. "The Hawk," Mike Royko writes, "was the outside lookout man at a bookie joint. Then his eyes got weak...