Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democrats are told to make up a firing squad, they form a circle. The system was set up with the best of intentions. After the disastrous 1968 Chicago convention, which took place in the streets as much as in the amphitheater, the Democrats decided that more people should be drawn into the nominating process. State party organizations were given a choice: either take the caucuses that select convention 'delegates out of the smoke-filled back rooms and open them to the rank and file party members, or hold a primary...
...will now be more representative. Under the old system, many rural counties were grouped with larger urban counties; with city voters in the majority in those districts, the rural counties could scarcely carry a candidate into office. Now it will be one man, one vote: new lines will be drawn to create single-member districts that will give the countryside an even break...
...least that is the impression one gets from listening to two new LPs drawn from tapes of the Carnegie concert and another Guthrie Memorial held at the Hollywood Bowl in 1970. Especially intriguing is the variety of musical treatment to which Woody's songs lend themselves. On the one hand there is Richie Havens turning the gruff, striding Vigilante Man into a mournful, gripping blues ballad. Or Odetta, virtually inventing a western soul style for the happy-go-lucky Ramblin' Round. When Guthrie talked about hard rock he meant a substance men mined in a hole...
From the day, a couple of years later, when another Clarke product reached the film screen as Stanley Kubrick's 2001, two symbolisms could be drawn. First, as popular enthusiasm was to demonstrate, science fiction had finally begun to come down from the segregated library shelves up beside the murder mysteries, and out of late-show monster movies, into the serious mind. But also, in the same month as that first New York screening. Martin Luther King was shot in Memphis. At that point one could note, in retrospect, the beginning of a political and cultural mood during which...
...York's flamboyant Congresswoman Bella Abzug. "I have only one man I go after: Martin Abzug, my husband." After making that perfectly clear, Bella officially announced that she would go after her old friend William Fitts Ryan in the June 20 Democratic primary. The reason: the legislature had drawn up new boundaries and abolished Bella's Manhattan district, forcing her to choose between withdrawal and friendship. Said Ryan's office: "We're very surprised and disappointed. She's some friend...