Word: folke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chief organizer of the protest was Folk Singer Joan Baez, who sent a letter to 350 onetime activists and celebrities asking them to sign the ad. Among the 84 who did: Daniel Berrigan, Cesar Chavez, Allen Ginsberg, I.F. Stone, William Styron. Others, however, turned down Baez on the grounds that they suspected the accuracy of the reporting out of Viet Nam or that they still could not forgive the U.S. for its role in the war. Jane Fonda would not sign even after a personal appeal from Baez. William Kunstler, perennial attorney for underdog litigants reportedly explained his refusal...
Ullmann's dancing is even more embarrassing. Her dance numbers make up in nervous tension what they mercifully lack in length. She watches her feet as if they were about to trip her up, and they almost do. This is true even in a simple folk dance that consists of kicking to the left and then kicking to the right...
...Perversion (1975). He has become convinced by his researches -including a detailed case history of a woman drawn from his analytic practice -that conventional sexual behavior is based on the same drives found in extreme form in sexual perverts. In fact, Stoller says, "we try to make the outlandish folk function as scapegoats for the rest of us, but anyone-not just analysts-who collects erotic thoughts knows that many citizens, avowedly heterosexual, conspicuously normal... are also rilled with hatred and wishes, if not plans, to harm others...
...whites-fighting-off-savage-hordes-in-darkest-Africa line. This spring, for instance, after the guerillas had shot down a Rhodesian Airways plane, Burns hopped the next flight and wrote about the whites gulping down the whiskey straight and nervously joking while the pilot did evasive maneuvers. Such brave folk...
...Senate siblings, ambassadorial ingenues, and Alice Jay, whose grandfather, James Callaghan, was in the process of losing his prime ministership at show time. Their ensemble was joined by another from the Soviet embassy, including Katya Dobrynin, the ambassador's granddaughter, who enchanted the East-West audience with her folk dance. Forgetting their handles, the kids...