Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talk about how they feel when they see a Confederate flag flying around. Well let me ask you this. How do you think the whites like myself feel when we see Black Power flags or when we see them give their Black Power salute? I can tell you one thing, it sure doesn't make us happy...
...trail lies on the landscaps, but is never one with it: they are always just passing through. It's a good metaphor for the expatriate sensibility that has grown up among young people, a new landlessness, an acute sense of dispossession. Wyatt wears a leather jacket with an American flag stitched on the back: Billy calls him Captain American. The land of the free is not only locked in convulsion now that the rent's come roun-it's lost. In the classic Western, the main character searches for a long-gone past; in Easy Rider America searches for itself...
...they moved side by side with white Marines against their common Communist enemy. "Ju Ju" and "Mau Mau" groups have organized to protect themselves against white prejudice and intimidation. In remote fire-support bases near the Cambodian border, blacks register their complaints as a group. Tanks fly black flags. At Danang, Black Power Leader Ron Karenga's followers have designed a flag: red for the blood shed by Negroes in Viet Nam and at home, black for the face of black culture, and green for youth and new ideas. Crossed spears and a shield at the center signify "violence...
...witness the spectacle. Between the time that oilmen presented their bids before 8 a.m. and the first results were announced at 10:28 a.m., Miller had a captive audience that any politician might envy. The Governor made the most of his opportunity, leading the oil executives through the Alaska Flag Song, introducing fellow Alaska politicians and screening a color film on the state. The audience was then treated by self-styled Bard of the Arctic Larry Beck to a recital of all 30 dreary stanzas of Black Gold. A sample couplet: "They made their way to Prudhoe Bay/To mine...
Gradually, more and more Crimeds returned to the College ready to resurrect the paper. Finally, on April 9, 1946, the CRIMSON reappeared. A black flag hung from the bronze ibis atop the Lampoon building to make things official...