Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rosa Parks, L.H.D., the seamstress whose refusal to give up her seat triggered the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, and who now works for a Michigan Congressman. Truly, when you sat down in a Montgomery, Ala., bus, all men and women were freed to stand more humanly erect. Harrison E. Salisbury, Litt.D., New York Times editor and correspondent...
...problem can be solved only by making Radcliffe more attractive. A free shuttle bus would eliminate much of the geographical problem; students could journey to and from the 'Cliffe quickly and, at night, safely. Increasing the number of classes and other activities at the 'Cliffe would not only reduce the countless trips to Harvard but also increase the interchange between the River and Quad dorms...
Like the fear of being hanged, the machine wonderfully concentrates the mind. Hitched up to a truck or bus driver, an airline pilot or an air-traffic controller, it may prevent accidents. Generally, it could be used to teach people to keep their minds on the matter at hand. But the right to daydream-the right not to pay attention-should be rigidly respected and, if need be, fiercely fought for, even if it is not listed in the Bill of Rights. A machine that could banish idle reveries would be a nightmare...
HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT 20 August 1890-17 February 1937 Since I was born after Lovecraft died, I knew of him only through seeing his books' lurid covers on paperback stands in airports and bus waiting rooms. The usual dust-jacket photograph of the author shows a youngish man with a lantern jaw and a rather startled expression. A bit of research at my university library revealed that his entire oeuvre consists of some 53 stories, plus assorted fragments and collaborations. Yet the writer has become a sort of cult figure and his books sell both consistently and well-over...
...achievements was the championing of "Free Cinema," the movement that helped lead British film into social consciousness in the fifties. Anderson's movement stood for political commitment, yet at the screenings of his films that accompanied the O Lucky Man! premiere, two stood out above the rest: The White Bus, a 1966 short film about a woman who takes a bus tour of her home town (a film containing only vague social comment), and the lyric 1967 short, The Singing Lesson, in which Polish songs accompany a masterfully planned, plotless set of views of Warsaw. The two shorts are hardly...