Word: footpaths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civil disobedience, Terence was first arrested (and fined ?1) for "blocking a footpath" during a 1960 peace march in London. In 1963, while trying to register Negro voters in Mississippi, he was arrested for loitering and littering, but the charges were not pressed. He joined CORE in San Francisco, helped organize the New Leftist W.E.B. DuBois Club, was arrested six more times for protests at business establishments that allegedly discriminated against Negroes. For twice refusing to leave a Cadillac agency, he was convicted on charges ranging from unlawful assembly to unlawful entry...
...rivers, sublimely picturesque in vernal bloom." Established in 1658 by Peter Stuyvesant, Nieuw Haarlem lay in a lush bottomland dotted with farms like "Happy Valley" and "Quiet Vale." At first it was connected to the rest of Manhattan by a single road built with Negro labor along an Indian footpath that is now part of Broadway...
...Roanoke Island who dis appeared from history in 1587. The play delivers the infant Virginia Dare, also delivers some tentative speculation on what happened to the settlers: forced to choose between surrender to a Spanish warship and taking their chances elsewhere in the unknown country, they elect the footpath in the wilderness that will lead to freedom, or death...
...others did come, bringing flowers. They arrived from Moscow by taxi and private car; they came by footpath through the woods or across the open fields from the suburban railroad station. A slow procession wound through the house to view the body: students, workers, peasants, elderly men and women of Pasternak's own generation. There were even some writers who braved official displeasure: Novelist Konstantin Paustovsky, Children's Author Kornei Chukovsky and, through his wife, Ilya Ehrenburg. Sviatoslav Richter, Russia's finest pianist, played slow dirges and the Chopin melodies that Pasternak had loved...