Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remember correctly. Two falls before, John Kennedy was shot dead in the middle of a Biology test. A girl came running into class hysterical to tell us. A few of us stayed to finish up our mollusca; then they let us out early. The summer before, I was a civil rights worker in Alabama. In those days, we believed that the government could solve all of our problems, and that we were the good guys and the government was on our side fighting the forces of evil...
...someone who stayed in the building for romantic goals rather then political goals is making an unfair appeal. He is asking amnesty on grounds distantly analogous to civil disobedience when he is in fact advocating a general change in life style. The Faculty may feel guilty about its political role, but it is unfair to plead to that conscience when you want it to feel guilty about its life style in general...
...York City's latest slumlord conviction has an unusual twist. Among the victims: a group of elderly whites in a Bronx apartment building. The landlord: James Meredith, 36, the prominent civil rights figure who was the first known Negro ever to attend the University of Mississippi. The tenants of the building testified that Meredith had cut off vital services in an effort to force them to agree to rent hikes in their rent-controlled apartments. A Bronx criminal-court judge found Meredith guilty on two counts; sentencing date is July 25, when Meredith faces a possible $250 fine...
...post-Civil War Midwest, a twelve-year-old orphan named George (Edward Albert) runs away from his guardians. His life takes on a Huckleberry hue, and a series of encounters leads him to the beginning of maturity. His first is with Dirty Jim (Henry Hull), an unregenerate old buzzard who prattles of "a fool killer," who poleaxes wrongdoers as they sleep. The figure haunts George's dreams until he actually finds him in the person of another fugitive: Milo Bogardus (Anthony Perkins...
Other men have lost their lives in the Civil War; Milo has lost his identity. He remembers nothing that happened before his war injury. Now, fearful and gullible, he traverses the countryside, a figure as lean and dangerous as the bowie knife he carries on his hip. When the two wanderers attend a fundamentalist camp meeting, George joins the screaming sinners who gather at the preacher's feet. The next morning the preacher is found hacked to death and Milo has vanished. George pushes on to a new town and eventually to a new home. But he knows that...