Word: conventioners
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REFLECTIONS UPON A SINKING SHIP, by Gore Vidal. A collection of perceptively sardonic essays about the Kennedys, Tarzan, Susan Sontag, pornography, the 29th Republican Convention, and other aspects of what Vidal sees as the declining West.
Eight soldiers at Fort Jackson, S.C., circulated petitions asking the base commander for permission to assemble to discuss the Viet Nam war. Forty-three Negro soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, refused riot duty at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Prisoners at the Presidio of San Francisco staged a sit-down...
While Editor Wenner considers his paper part of the "youth revolution," he does not automatically accept every part of the youth scene. When young people and police clashed in Palm Springs, Calif., during an Easter vacation pop festival, Stone largely ignored the music in favor of first-rate reporting of...
THE COMMITTEE of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS) has come a long way since its inception as a "radical caucus" within the Association of Asian Scholars (AAS) annual convention a year ago in Philadelphia. At that time the caucus of 500 scholars in Asian Studies "came together in opposition to the...
Macabre Accident. As a child in San Francisco, Isadora burned her parents' marriage certificate to free herself from moral convention. She yielded to the tyranny of official paper only once thereafter - when she married her Rus sian lover in order to bring him into the U.S. Between those parentheses...