Word: corso
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have known each other for years, and last week they were among the 30,000 people who gathered at the Piazza Fera for a Communist campaign rally at which the featured speaker was Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer. Shortly afterward, Perelli and Gelsomino met at the intersection of Corso Mazzini and Via Manzoni. There they discussed the rally in a dialogue recorded by TIME'S Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante...
...student victims of the Kent State shooting and the parents of the four youths who were killed on May 4, 1970, had filed a $46 million civil suit against Ohio Governor James Rhodes, former Kent State University President Robert White, Ohio National Guard Commanders Robert Canterbury and Sylvester Del Corso and a number of Guardsmen involved in the firing. They did so as a last resort. An Ohio state grand jury that looked into the case had indicted only students for their part in the rioting that preceded the shooting. Former Attorney General John Mitchell had refused even to convene...
Loaded Guns. Governor Rhodes testified that he went to the campus mainly to get firsthand information on the disturbances. A former Guard sergeant, Michael Delaney, said that Rhodes had angrily ordered officials in to prevent even as many as two students from walking together on campus. Del Corso and Canterbury said it was the responsibility of troop unit leaders to decide whether guns should be loaded; the unit commanders testified that they had only followed orders from above. The most common defense of the Guardsmen was that students were rushing them just before they retaliated with gunfire. "I felt...
...earned $100,000 a year kidding the splayfoot, clayfoot maneuvers of the middle class, in and out of ofiice. Jules Feiffer, Walt Kelly, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, and Mad magazine all flourished in the allegedly timid decade. Jack Kerouac's road, Allen Ginsberg's Howl, Gregory Corso's curses -these too issued in the '50s, when the beats marched to an indifferent drummer...
...other serious writing of the time-that predicted something as vague as "almost schizophrenic change" in "the temper of our times." Allen Ginsberg, whose poem Howl is generally thought to have started the literary side of the movement, sang of devastated minds, mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs. Gregory Corso raged against authority, lamented the thinning of his wild hair and questioned the institution of marriage. Jack Kerouac's On the Road bubbled about the transient life. Lawrence Ferlinghetti was charming about overpopulation, and obsession with the tyranny of drugs, governments and unspecified malevolence could be found in the work...