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...files all over the floor. Crimson Editor James Fallows, | later a speech- writer for Jimmy Carter, reported encountering "the great stone-faced Nathan Pusey, (who) tried to conceal his utter astonishment at the passions tearing up his university." Pusey called in the police, plus 200 state troopers. With a four-foot battering ram, they smashed down the main door; chain cutters, sledgehammers and billy clubs did the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Schoale and How It Grew | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...Maundy Thursday services at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan included such now familiar symbols of a progressive liturgy as a dramatic reading and a symbolic dance. But when a four-foot bronze statue of Jesus on the cross was unveiled, gasps could be heard throughout the main chapel. The Christus was, in fact, a Christa, complete with undraped breasts and rounded hips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Vexing Christa | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

...smells of tobacco. He smokes a long-stem briar pipe, into which he tamps tobacco with his thumb. His working tools are paper and pencils on a good-sized table and his books (cheaply bound in paper for the most part) on shelves around the wall. Ornaments are a four-foot telescope and a large terrestrial globe. The grand piano in the room is his diversion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCIENCE 1929: Einstein's Field Theory | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...officers then helped the protesters pile the trees in a neat four-foot barricade, leaving a passageway for pedestrians to enter and leave the building. Few of the demonstrators, most of who were over registration age, entered the post office, and the barricade was removed late in the afternoon...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Activists and Trees Protest Registration | 1/7/1981 | See Source »

Ignoring a four-foot spray-painted "NO REAGUN" (sic) message, which appeared on the front of the convention hall despite 24-hour police protection, the messiah from the West marched into Cobo and reminded his disciples, "This is a crusade, not a campaign...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Detroit Anderson Headquarters Opens In Backwash of Republican Convention | 7/18/1980 | See Source »

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