Word: candlelight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senior Class Committee has urged attendance at the candlelight peace vigil Wednesday night near the statue of John Harvard. It asked that the community regard Commencement as a ceremony "acted out under the ominous shadow of national and international conflict, suffering, and injustice...
Consider the University of Alabama, which has long been a bastion of idolized athletes and lionized coaches, pretty coeds, fervent fraternity men and racism. Today, Alabama is aroused−and politicized. An indication of the new mood came on May 6, when a candlelight service was held for the students slain at Kent State. Afterward, there was a march on the mansion of President F. David Mathews, where students demanded a number of parochial changes (self-regulation on hours for women, better food and such). Nothing big by up-North standards, but neither the service nor the march would have...
...Candlelight illuminated the huge main room of the pewless church as groups gathered at long tables set up around the room's edge. Much of the talk concerned the night school set up by Harvard for its workers- called by many present a "valueless program" which only prevented the allegedly underpaid workers from taking on second jobs...
...diplomatic cold front formed over a year ago when Sweden began granting asylum to U.S. Army deserters and then became the first Western country to grant official recognition to North Viet Nam. The situation was not eased when Premier Olof Palme, then Education Minister, marched in a Stockholm candlelight parade to protest American war policies. The Apollo 11 astronauts' world tour last fall pointedly omitted Sweden, and two months ago, Sweden announced that it would send Hanoi $45 million in reconstruction aid. In reply, the U.S. closed its consulate in Goteborg. More significantly...