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...chomps on a few native warriors and, during his New York stint, a businessman. He also steps on people. Most unfortunate of all is the woman living several flights down from Ann: Kong pulls her out through her bedroom window, but discovering she's not his girl, drops her--fifteen stories...
Mayakovsky had joined the Bolshevik party at thirteen; been arrested and jailed for subversive activity by fifteen; and emerged from prison at sixteen determined to become a poet. In 1910, he entered a recently formed Futurist circle, much influenced by Marinetti and the Italians. But from the beginning the Russian Futurists were more given to formal literary experimentation and less given to aesthetic polemic than the Italians. And when Marinetti arrived in Russia in early 1914 to sign the Russians on to his own Futurist Program, he was rebuffed...
...years past, the California court has been a leader in establishing precedents for other state judiciaries. It remains to be seen, in a climate of growing anxiety over crime, whether more states will shut down their gas chambers or dismantle their electric chairs. Fifteen states have abolished the death penalty for almost all offenses. But in one of them. West Virginia, the state senate voted two weeks ago to reinstate...
Saturday night at New Haven, Yale gave Harvard everything it could handle for one period, but midway through the second, it was the same old story at Ingalls Rink. Harvard had scored four goals within fifteen minutes and Yale was on its way to its fifth straight defeat...
...diggers as: "...an accurate reflection of student attitudes in general. In 1964 we got mostly clean-cut students, but all this has really changed since then, 1967 was a highly responsible, committed year. '68 was curious, with much unrest. '69 was dreadful--it was the year of American violence. Fifteen people from Berkeley had a sit-down strike for shorter working hours. They took direct action, something we had not experienced previously and got no support from the community. 1970 was again a year of commitment, when violence was out, and people were hardworking...