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...building, 50 separatists set up a new chant-"Le Quebec au Ouebecoia [Quebec for Quebeckers]." Again the police shut them up, and she moved on to her official round of appointments-mostly ceremonial and out of public view. For a war memorial dedication at Quebec's historical old Citadel, only 1,500 of 2,500 invited guests bothered to show up; and no sooner were the formal ceremonies under way than another minor demonstration erupted outside the high grey wall surrounding the Citadel. The next day was spent quietly on shipboard, entertaining special guests at a state luncheon...
...just don't believe our Western society can maintain itself as a beleaguered citadel of opulence in a world of poverty," he said. "It literally cannot survive if a majority of people are starving and a minority are overfed...
...falls in love with the beauteous Abigail (Alessandra Panaro), 3) runs afoul of Captain De Malagon, a nasty pirate who hated Captain Blood and is happy to loose his fury on the son and his lust on Abigail, 4) seizes the nasty pirate's ship, 5) storms a citadel, 6) frees all the slaves, 7) can't think of anything more to do. But sit tight. In movies like this, Mother Nature is always ready to cover for a fellow. Along comes a Technicolor earthquake to wind up the picture with a great big bang...
...down in Greenwich Village, where the elite meet to beat, once stood an off-Broadway citadel called The Living Theater. Its keepers were Julian Beck, 38, and his wife Judith Molina, 37, and because they were "artists" they also kept their federal taxes. There wasn't enough money there to save The Living Theater (it died), but naturally the IRS haled them into court, and naturally they had a theatrical ball conducting their own defense, and naturally a bunch of squares found them guilty of avoiding taxes. "Victims of injustice!" squealed the Becks at the verdict. "Innocent! Innocent...
Yesterday's 92-degree heat especially made itself felt within the walls of Harvard's normally immune citadel of learning--air conditioned Lamont Library. The temperature inside remained a comfortable 75 degrees, but solitude became a rather rare commodity as well over 1200 knowledge-seekers crowded the building...