Word: foundering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WOLFE Ken Kesey is a Christ-like figure, the founder of a new religion. He stands at the center of a band of disciples ("The Merry Pranksters") and interprets for them the meaning of a new experience...
...prefer the realism of open-air settings for dramatizing their message to children, students, workers and activists. Naturally, the values of the Broadway stage are anathema to them. "You cannot respond to junk like Tennessee Williams or Arthur Miller," insists Luis Valdez, an alumnus of the Mime Troupe and founder of El Teatro Campesino. "Art is communication. The more artful you are, the more straight-telling you are." This is roughly the esthetic theory of the poster or the comic strip, and guerrilla theater is hardly more subtle; radical drama willingly sacrifices art for impact, nuance for message, plot...
...tendency to burst its banks, the Arkansas was nonetheless a busy waterway. Keelboats explored it in the early 1800s. By the 1820s side-wheelers pushed past the Fort Smith sandbars. Before going to Texas, Sam Houston steamed up a tributary in Oklahoma to wed his Cherokee beauty. Henry Shreve, founder of Shreveport, in 1833 eliminated 1,500 navigational snags, but boatmen still grumbled that the river's "bottom is too near its top." By the 1870s, the snags, sandbars and erratic flow were stifling traffic along the Arkansas, and when rails spanned the river at the turn...
...Disciples were organized at the beginning of the 19th century as a backwoods ecumenical venture that sought to do away with denominational differences. The founder was the Rev. Thomas Campbell, a Presbyterian minister from Pennsylvania who wanted to unite all men on a few basics of belief. Christianity, he argued, is "essentially and constitutionally one church made up of all those in every place who profess their faith in Jesus Christ...
Witnesses scheduled to appear during the hearings include, Dave Dellinger, leader of the Mobilization Committee to End the War; Tom Hayden, founder of Students for a Democratic Society; and Abbie Hoffman, a Yippie leader...