Word: concordes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a trumped-up consensus which conceals real inequality and conflict. One way to repudiate this attempt at a false consensus is through demonstrations, like the one the People's Bicentennial Commission has called for this Friday night. The Commission's plan for a midnight-to-draw vigil at Concord was unnecessarily theatrical, and its planners' emphasis on vogue phrases about "economic independence," or sending "Wall Street" an unspecified "message," isn't much help either. The revolutionaries whose language the Commission takes over wholesale weren't just stealing phrases--they were reacting to their time's problems and responding...
More than 100,000 people are likely to congregate today on the peaceful middle-class towns of Lexington and Concord, starting as early as midnight, to watch to series of reenactments and speeches having to do with more momentous but less closely watched and planned events of 200 years...
...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...