Word: frantic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the beginning of the North Vietnamese offensive on March 30 and Nixon's frantic attempts to halt the rapid erosion of South Vietnamese strength, students around the country were jolted out of their slumber. As Nixon first escalated the bombing of the North and then mined Northern ports, students answered his affront to the people of the world by calling student strikes, engaging in mass acts of civil disobedience and lobbying their representatives in Washington. A few of the more militant violently assaulted buildings they claimed were linked to the military effort. University officials joined students in protesting...
...songs roll on, Jagger wiggles his flanks in Guitarist Keith Richard's face. Singing the frantic Gimmie Shelter, Jagger stands fey in the middle of it, bouncing time with one scarecrow leg, left hand inverted on his hip like an artist balancing before his easel. For Tumbling Dice, he strips off his denim jacket to reveal a sheer white jersey shirt that matches the clinging pants. And then Mick dances around Bassist Bill Wyman standing stiff and still in his new suit, sips on a Coors between choruses, trades vocal lines with Richard...
...followers of one of their own people. But in the context of the novel, the crucifixion of Pedro's brother, Salvador, who is already a very sick man, seems a natural act of piety. And though afterwards Cuscat realizes that to the Dominicans his people dancing in frantic circles are only blasphemous drunken Indians, to him, their leader, they are "drowning people going toward a core which doesn't even have a name, certainly it is not called any god's name, just the place where everything comes from, life and death...
...with the beginning of the North Vietnamese offensive on March 30 and Nixon's frantic attempts to halt the rapid erosion of South Vietnamese strength, students around the country were jolted out of their slumber. As Nixon first escalated the bombing of the North and then mined Northern ports, students answered his affront to the people of the world by calling student strikes, engaging in mass acts of civil disobedience and lobbying their representatives in Washington. A few of the more militant violently assaulted buildings they claimed were linked to the military effort. University officials joined students in protesting...
...Dylan: A Retrospective claims to explore Bob Dylan, the "composer and musician." It is far more valuable as a record of how America almost stifled one of its finest creative talents in a frantic effort to create a god. Perhaps someday, the public will understand this about Dylan and see his growth as a hope and as an opening. Until then, it is instructive to consider these essays, and reflect on how a folk-rock concert at Newport ended what millions of Americans will look back on as their spiritual and political virginity...