Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The scene was worthy of Goya. Out of Barcelona's Gothic Santa Eulalia Cathedral marched a procession of 120 angry, black-robed priests bearing a petition that preached against the government. From the other direction charged a crowd of grises-the grey-clad, club-swinging cops who maintain order...
The priests were supporting the cause of Barcelona University students, who have long been demanding "free associations" in their colleges as opposed to the Madrid-dictated "syndicates" that have long called the collegiate shots. The cops, on the other hand, were merely trying to maintain order-a major problem in...
The fighting broke out after a delegation of 15 law students went to call on the university rector, Dr. Ignacio Chavez, who supported the dean's disciplinary measures. Instead, the delegation was arrested. Within hours, many of the university's 70,000 students picked up clubs and bicycle...
"Extremely Vulnerable." All the while, the Mounties said, Gerda was "very actively engaged as a common prostitute" in Montreal and, as such, associated with members of Montreal's underworld. When Gerda's citizenship was finally turned down, she returned to West Germany. But before leaving she went on...
These two novellas illustrate how evanescent a Calisher point can be when it is pursued to its core. On the New York-to-Boston train, in The Railway Police, is a woman social worker who wears wigs to hide a hereditary baldness. Seeing a ticketless passenger led away by the...