Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clubs had a sense of humor, some combined assault might be made on the Administration for a center, a place where people could come and be. Where ego-tripping would be the only taboo. Where skills and ideas would be shared among friends. Where a minor message begins. I gather some fellows around me toward evening...
Half an hour later, the room where the computerized lists are distributed is jammed with a crush of expectancy. Most of the lists are long, some as many as 40 names, and the recipients gather outside to compare. For the remainder of the cruise, the standard opening gambit, repeated hundreds of times, is, "Are you on my list...
...eleven-union strike against the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner is technically a stalemate. Publisher George R. Hearst Jr., 41, grandson of the crusading William Randolph, still directs a staff of strike breakers inside his boarded-up building. Behind other barricades just a block away, some 50 strikers still gather each day to dispense food and subsistence checks, plot strategy and pounce hopefully on every rumor of Hearst's troubles. Actually, the strike is over-and the clear winner is George Hearst...
...shall I write?" Hardy says that Evtushenko was forced to delete 80 previously published poems from his latest collection of verse and that he was scarcely alone among Soviet writers in his opposition to the invasion. The hard-lining officials of the Writers Union, he reports, were unable to gather enough signatures for a declaration supporting the Soviet action. A compromise letter was finally produced, much milder in tone and with only 34 signers - out of a union membership of 6,600 writers...
...would refer to the same Occurrences as visits from the Spirit or the Holy Ghost, and in the original confessions, Nat Turner uses the term Spirit throughout. Styron's hero preaches only once in the entire book and then very poorly. Black ministers preached as often as they could gather a crowd and they preached well, well by black standards I mean here, or else the people looked for a minister who could preach. Styron's Turner could not have gathered a following large enough to raid a watermelon patch...