Word: esteli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Give it a break, Jeff. Protesters are not "like birds ... who like nothing more than to flock together," and who flit from issue to issue in search of the chic-est cause. Activists are thinking people who, for the most part, ascribe to a broad left-wing agenda. Their personal political concerns may range from union organizing, to feminism, to national self-determinism in the third world, to civil rights struggles here at home...
Caveat Emptor! L'etat, c'est moi! Don't it make your brown eyes blue! Not mine, certainly, but I confess to feeling a surge of indignation, all the same, at this fatuous manifestation of a meddling, bloated, neo-Johnsonian "Great" Societish welfare state Gorgon that I had long hoped would never rear its ugly head in the sartorially innocent groves of Eli academe...
Finally this got too depressing, so I decided to call an old friend, Rev. Brightside. The Rev was a Krishna during the '60s and then dropped out and made a bundle on mood rings. I met him during an EST session at the Ensalen Institute and we got to be pretty good friends before I was kicked out for parking illegally on a hugging workshop...
...Gulf Coast of Texas was never a hotbed of anarchist agitation. But that was before voters in the tiny resort town of Crystal Beach (est. pop. 1,200) decided that rather than fight city hall, they ought to get rid of it. And so they did, voting 314 to 245 earlier this month to abolish the local government. Within hours after the city's only polling place closed, revelers had torn down the green-and-white Crystal Beach highway signs along Texas Route 87 and taunted lame-duck local police officers, who could no longer enforce the town...
Concluding a three-month investigation, the three-member board headed by former Sen. John Tower (R-Tex.), will deliver its findings to the president at 10 a.m. EST today and discuss its report at a news conference an hour later...