Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting of the demonstrators at 11:45 a.m. voted to remain on the steps of the building until 5 p.m.. and to send representatives to the houses to gather supporters during lunch...
Camejo, speaking toward the end of the rally, told the audience not to "play revolution, but to be revolutionaries." Receiving loud and continuous applause, he urged the rally-goers to go into the communities today and "reach out to the people" to gather support for an anti-war referendum on the November ballot...
...holding meetings today in all the Houses to discuss the strike, with most of the meetings being held at 1:30 p. m. NAC has also called for strikers to gather at 10 a. m. today at University Hall for picketing...
Katherine Anne Porter is praising the short stories of Willa Gather, but the lines could be used without revision to describe some of her own small classics. Noon Wine (1937), a short novel, recounts a stark frontier tragedy of murder and remorse as muted and inevitable as anything by Thomas Hardy. Another flawless short novel, Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939), describes the descent of a consciousness toward death-and its reluctant return to life -with mesmeric power...
...caustic, illusionless side of Miss Porter that pervades much of this collection of essays, reviews, asides and letters. Only a few well-made literary essays-on Thomas Hardy, Eudora Welty, Willa Gather-reflect morning freshness and intelligence at high noon...