Word: englandisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year ago, the button of the New England Resistance was a black hand-styled Omega on a white background. Omega stands for ohms in electricity which measures resistance, which, sometime after October 16, 1967, became the official insignia for draft resistance. I first put on my Omega button as I dropped my letter to Ramsey Clark with my draft cards into a red and blue box labelled "U. S. Mail." That was in San Diego, California last summer. That was when buttons meant more than they do now. They somehow told what was on your mind...
...Boston newspapers had said that the driver--Stephen Pallet, 24--was a Harvard graduate student in philosophy, but a search of University records yesterday revealed no trace of his name. In a statement yesterday, the New England Resistance said that Pallet had worked for them since he graduated from Dartmouth in 1967, and that he had no plans to enter Harvard graduate school...
...into the crevice that separates two eras, discovers that she shares certain affinities with Linda. From that point, it is not long before Martha is voluntarily undergoing harrowing experiments in order to determine the limits of her consciousness. As the novel closes, she is stranded off the Scottish coast, England having been decimated by poison gas and radioactivity. She has also become a member of a telepathic community whose members speak to each other across great distance through the power of their own shared thoughts. In doing so, Martha attains a perspective that permits her to see, in the midst...
George apparently inherited porphyria from Mary Queen of Scots (1542-87), who passed the genetic disorder on to 16 generations of European aristocracy. Her son, James I of England, was affected, as are several living European aristocrats who cooperated in the study but asked that they not be identified. In a simliar fashion, Queen Victoria-whose father, the Duke of Kent, showed signs of porphyria-passed hemophilia on to generations of male European royalty...
Class is a very hard quantity to define. Does Frank Sinatra have class? The Crown Prince of England? Does a Rolls Royce have more class than a Mark VII Jaguar? Does Jacqueline Onassis have class? How about Raquel Welch...