Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...setting is a graveyard. The event is a funeral for a man named Cock Certain. It is a starry night, and four sad people have gathered to say goodbye to the man who breathed life into them all. These people- called Miss Indigo Jones, Robin Breast Western, Filigree Bones and Fibber Kidding- cannot agree on any specific facts concerning their dearly beloved, but that doesn't matter. What does matter is what they do agree on: It is all no use. No use to go on living in a world where all we can wait for is the inevitable senseless...
...event, New Hampshire's senior senator, Norris Cotton, is to be heartily commended for refusing to succumb to the hysteria. This newspaper joins him in refusing to have on OUR consciences the "numberless thousands" of non-Communist Asians who will be "tortured and slaughtered" if the United States were to suddenly withdraw from South Vietnam. Nor will we accept responsibility for the betrayal of the brave young men who have served the cause of freedom- and even died for it- while asking no more in return than moral support from the American people...
...support two great cities, perhaps one on either coast, but it does not. A half-century ago, San Francisco looked as if it might become the great city of the West. Instead, it has remained a charming, eccentric and physically beguiling minor metropolis. Los Angeles, in the unlikely event that it ever should overcome its centrifugal forces, may yet become the Western colossus. Though it has many parts of greatness, Chicago, on the other hand, has always thought of itself as the "second city"-and so it always will be, if not third or fourth. Even without the political power...
...make a witness to America and the world that not everyone approves of what the government is doing at this moment in history, that not everyone went along with the manipulated majority-but that is a sterile exercise in working out our own frustrations. The march is the social event of the season-but that isn't enough to justify the long drive (below the speed limit, so as to give no pretext for arrests...
Brown has a slightly better chance of winning. The Bruins must beat Harvard and Columbia while the Crimson must lose at Yale. In that event, Brown. now 3-1-1 would win the title outright...