Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that concern about issues, debates, etc." When Carter said he would like to walk to the White House for a meeting with Gerald Ford, the President's staff nixed the idea because, they said, it created logistical problems. Thus Carter was forced to ride in an eight-car motorcade for a journey of about 200 yards...
...scuffled with uniformed officers in vitriolic demonstrations over working conditions. In Detroit, bitter police officers insolently nicknamed their balding chief "Elmer Fudd" in washroom graffiti. San Francisco's new police chief removed the American flag to make his office less formal, and small flags defiantly sprouted on squad-car antennas. The Orange County Patrolmen's Benevolent Association in Florida gives its members a policeman's "Miranda card," outlining not the rights of criminal suspects but the officer's own rights if he is investigated by his department. Rank-and-file cops in San Diego hired Teamsters...
Three visual themes recur: a train, a trial, a field with a spaceship. The train, which first appears as a steam locomotive, returns as an observation car and finally as a university building. In the two courtroom scenes, it is never clear who is on trial. The illuminated cubicles of the spaceship's interior, with flashing lights and moving silhouettes, resemble a grownup's busy box. Einstein has very little to do with the proceedings, although sometimes he fiddles furiously from a raised platform in the pit. Wilson's art reflects the work he has done...
While Dr. Isaac never referred to himself at our forum, CAR believes this university's highly controversial and irregular refusal to grant him tenure is a blatant example of Harvard's racism. Professor Isaac is a world-renowned scholar with excellent teaching credentials. His specialty is classical Ethiopic and the history of its literature. The dismissal of this popular teacher, and the virtual end of indigenous African language-literature teaching it represents, speaks loudly of Harvard's prejudice against the interests and cultures of black people...
...Harvard black students led militant protests against Harvard investment in South Africa. In 1976, CAR research shows Harvard Overseers are still profitably interested in South Africa. There black labor costs even less than it does in the U.S., since racism is formalized by apartheid there but it not here. If Harvard quite literally has a stake in South African apartheid, is it any wonder that apartheid prevails in the administration of languages and literatures in this institution...