Word: chicagoism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Court Building. They had to content themselves with predictable speeches to a generally indifferent audience before heeding police instructions to move on. Even the elements seemed to be against the Weathermen. A downpour washed out another attempt to hold a rally in Lincoln Park, scattering demonstrators and inspiring the Chicago Sun-Times to report: "The revolution was called on account of rain...
...retired, he had received 688 weapons confiscated by police and customs officials. At the time, he signed receipts saying the guns were for Army use, but in his testimony he insisted that the receipts were a mere "formality." Not so, said a spokesman for one of the donors, Chicago Police Superintendent James Conlisk: "The general is engaging in falsehood." Last June, seven of the weapons were seized as part of an illegal arms shipment to rebels in Haiti...
...inherited the contents of Brancusi's studio on his death in 1957) have brought the total number of pieces up to 84 sculptures and 23 drawings. By far the largest and most comprehensive Brancusi show ever assembled, it will move on to the Guggenheim Nov. 21, then to Chicago's Art Institute in the spring...
...hardly matters that Kennedy was right the first time. Nobody expects that the U.S. can defeat inflation by conventional means unless it accepts at least a 4% unemployment rate, and if inflation continues to soar, the Administration may indeed be forced to introduce controls. But Kennedy, a longtime top Chicago banker with no previous experience in sensitive public office, has not yet learned that a Cabinet member's pronouncements are automatically taken as seriously considered policy. Nor has he learned to dodge a potentially explosive question. While even his critics applaud Kennedy's innate decency and amiability...
...make movies which entertain us, even if supercially. The little sense of community which came through in The Secret of Santa Vittoria was encouraging. But I suspect we are doing all we can to preserve a sense of humor. The problem is that some things-like Chicago, Washington, Watts, Detroit, Birmingham, and Dallas-just aren't funny...