Word: concorde
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...occasion is the commemoration of the opening battles of the American Revolutionary War--and the people of Boston, Lexington and Concord are ready...
...bicentennial is a tightly organized production, geared toward massive press coverage--in the atmosphere of efficiency and bureaucracy that prevailed in Concord and Lexington yesterday, the men in tricorner hats looked no more a part of the scene than they would have on any other...
...bicentennial evokes any sort of noble American past it is almost sure to give the masses what they want--a show. President Ford is in town--he spoke at Old North Church last night while protestors demonstrated outside--and he will declaim patriotic sentiments from the Concord bridge this morning...
There is even a touch of protest in today's events--the people's Bicentennial Commission, which says it wants to reclaim America from Wall Street, will be holding an all-night vigil in Concord while its parade permit lasts, in a celebration designed to call forth the harsh, indominable revolutionary spirit...
...hard to tell if the People's Commission's effect will be more or less successful than the official cities' ones; from the looks of Lexington and Concord yesterday, the spirit abroad in the land was strictly 1970s...