Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Descendants of the Indians who greeted white America's ancestors at Plymouth Rock have organized their own somewhat sardonic Thanksgiving. Some 500 Indians will gather at that Pilgrim landfall to demonstrate, for Indian-studies programs in colleges, territorial justice and a return to tribal religions. They argue that Thanksgiving is only the white man's version of a longstanding Indian harvest festival, and the white man has been borrowing from the Indian ever since. Says Rayleen Bay, a Mohawk who helped organize the Indian anti-Thanksgiving: "Plymouth Rock should have landed on the Pilgrims...
There is also the influence of Eastern religions, which is to be found wherever the members of Woodstock Nation gather. Yoga disciplines, for instance, have always included "natural" foods while proscribing meats, and some of the new vegetarians share the Hindu regard for all living creatures. A meatless diet is also considered more conducive to meditation and higher awareness. A few neo-yogis find that even vegetables are too mundane and go on to become fruitarian. "Fruit is probably the most spiritual food there is," says Craig Bennett, 23, a Southern California follower of the Indian guru, Rhada Swami...
...Daily Princetonian reported that a surprising number of Princeton women intended to write advertising copy for their candidates. Most of these coeds (Bang to PLUG.) found the two week period a bit trying, for they were not able in that short time span to gather enough material to create a good advertising spread. (Play "Tiger Rag," then jump to BALL...
...fascination with violence, its chaotic organization, its insistence on absolute freedom (an illusion that in the past has invariably led to tyranny). Often their cult is pseudo-religious, even monastic: it is consecrated to a dead or distant deity like Che Guevara or Mao Tse-tung; its communicants gather in intimate, almost confessional cells: and they observe a ritual secrecy that eventually cuts them off from society altogether. Their ideologies differ, but in general their rationale is that "the system" is incapable of real change and that the official violence of the government (police, prisons, armies) can only be countered...
...verse is part of a protest song that is popular in the cafés and boîtes of Santiago. In the dim light of those peñas folklóricas, as they are known, Chilean students representing every shade of the leftist spectrum?from Christian Democrat to anarchic urban terrorist?gather to sing their praise of Fidel Castro's Cuba and their passionate hatred of the local oligarchy...