Word: customs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teach him public speaking. Then it was on to Amherst (cum laude) and Harvard Law School (cum laude), with a side trip to Northwestern to take more speech courses. At Amherst he was "the Jim Farley of my class, the campus politician"; at Harvard he was noted for his custom of faithfully reading five newspapers daily. He returned to St. Louis in 1953, joined his father's law firm and lost no time plunging into politics...
Also making his Festival debut is Marc B. Weiss, who has lit the show with unerring taste and skill. Especially effective is the night lighting. In a departure from custom, Brutus and Antony deliver their eulogies of Caesar in the evening, with flickering light coming from flaming torches held by four of the assembled commoners...
...masters, in the 1870 rebellion known to Mexican historians as "The Chiapas War of the Castes." But in recounting Cuscat's story, Wilson also details how he, as novelist, tracked this story down, searched it out in historical documents and folk tales, came to understand it by studying social custom and innuendo, and finally realized its meaning for his own life...
...custom of observing the day as a tribute to men fallen in battle was initiated by the women of Mobile, Ala., in 1865, and picked up by the Soldiers' and Sailors' Union in Washington, D.C., a year later. In cities large and small, the American Legion marched, trumpets blared tunes of glory as the citizenry paid homage to the dead of Bull Run, Belleau Wood, Bastogne...
...well, he says, that a political enemy asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate him, and he was subsequently hit with an outstanding $80,000 claim. While Coxson was trying to appeal the case, the feds moved in and seized his white Lincoln Continental Mark IV and his custom-built black Cadillac limousine. Undaunted, Coxson went right out and bought another set of wheels: a $300 kelly green tandem bicycle with dual horns and chrome fenders...