Word: eventfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...event unprecedented in Radcliffe commencement history, Rachel Radio Lieberman '68 read a statement voted overwhelmingly by the senior class supporting men who refuse to serve in the armed forces. The crowd applauded the statement vigorously...
...Cambridge, a "failure of the system" sort of radicalizing event happened when a referendum on the war was soundly defeated. To quite a few hard-working students, including many that Keniston had interviewed months before, it was a stunning blow. The "channels" that liberals had talked about were turning out to be ineffective channels...
...ACRES OF newsprint written on Robert F. Kennedy's death are a monument to the insufficiency of words to capture very much of the horror of the event. There is something nearly obscene in our lust for facts--interviews with the Los Angeles ambulance driver or the engineer who drove the funeral train. And there is something both noble and terrifying in the passion of thousands of Americans to be part of the public mourning, shoving so hard to get near the funeral train are that two killed by an express speeding in the other direction...
...name Patsy in no way refers to long-suffering audiences who have learned to take Oscars, Obies, Tonys, Emmys, Grammys and Clios in their stride. Actually, Patsy stands for Picture Animal Top Star of the Year (moviewise) and Performing Animal Television Star of the Year (televisionwise). Sponsor of the event is the American Humane Association, watchdog body that protects animals from cruel treatment on TV and movie sets. The judges are newspaper columnists, but neither Price Waterhouse nor a saliva tester authenticates the ballots. The master of ceremonies was a human TV personality, Woody Woodbury...
Selected Facts. What flaws this analysis of the Viet Nam tragedy is the fact that it was written before Johnson's recent abdication-an event that might have balanced some of Wicker's more emotional judgments. That is not the only omission in what Wicker candidly calls an "imaginative reconstruction" of two tragic presidencies. Author of six published novels, Wicker is too prone to select the facts that intensify his drama. He scarcely mentions Kennedy's exciting effect on the national mood and his great coup in the Cuban missile crisis. Wicker almost totally overlooks at least...