Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NASSAU COUNTY, N.Y.--Ours is not a romantic age, and so it's hardly surprising that, except for his green jump suit, Philip (Phil) McGuire with his broad face and fading hairline looked about as ordinary as any other of the dozen or so people sipping beer in a Long Island bar on a hot afternoon last week. Like them, he was relaxing from work, but his line of business was perhaps slightly more demanding than theirs. McGuire had just returned from two months of flying arms and food into the beleaguered African state of Biafra...
...students considered it an omen of RUS's doom. The meeting was held before classes started in September, and Mrs. Bunting explained that RUS representatives had not been invited because students were not yet back in Cambridge. While no one should ignore the possibility of subtler reasons, no one except the College Council will ever be able to do better than guess at them. RUS members were "irritated, but not angry" at not being invited. Mrs. Bunting argued that the tension came from the speculation about the motives of the Council, not from the actions of the Council itself...
...extraordinary zeal. Since his extradition from England last July, he has been kept in a third-floor cell in the Memphis courthouse, watched over by two ever-present deputies. Eight bright mercury-vapor lamps burn at all times. Two closed-circuit TV cameras are always trained on the cell. Except when Ray is conferring with his lawyer, a microphone listens in. Only one other murder suspect in the U.S. is currently being held under such strict security provisions. That man is Sirhan Sirhan, who will stand trial in Los Angeles for the murder of Robert Kennedy...
...slogan of the hour. The Man in the Glass Booth asks playgoers to share guilt for the massacre of the Jews. The Great White Hope asks playgoers to share guilt for the oppression of the Negro. Both are dramas of contrition with little internal life; they would scarcely stir, except for the borrowed adrenaline of newspaper headlines, past history, and the emotional sympathies of the already converted. For the price of a mea culpa, the audience is made to feel good by feeling...
Monday night he asked the City Council to change the name of Harvard Square to Christopher Columbus Square. "What the hell," he says, grinning broadly, "that guy Harvard never did anything for Cambridge except give the city six lousy books on Protestant theology--and THAT place. We can certainly do better by the discoverer of our great nation." Columbus, Vellucci, and East Cambridge are all Italian...