Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hippies began to gather in a Houston schoolyard last week after an early morning rain. They spread their blankets and ponchos on the wet grass and talked quietly among themselves. Then a police paddy wagon and a pickup truck pulled up and the cops leaped out. There were yells-"Let's get the freaks!"-and the police proceeded to beat the young people mercilessly. But the confrontation's results were recorded on a score card instead of a police blotter or hospital admission form. They were playing softball...
Sunflower cannot totally extinguish De Sica's guttering genius. A scene of returning Italian soldiers, for instance, is a fine reminder of the noon of neo-realismo. Wives, mammas and children of the missing gather at the railroad station, holding aloft glossy little snapshots, a forest of question marks. Does anyone know the fate or whereabouts of these vanished? The soldiers move on; the incomplete tragedies remain. A bigger puzzle also lingers: Why should so many proven talents squander themselves on Sunflower? For pane? Certainly-but also to counter the sexual revolution with the kind of romantic movie they...
...committee felt that more time was needed to gather information on how the trial lunch program worked last Spring...
Lonnie McLucas was not in New Haven at the time the other New Haven Panthers were arrested. He returned, learned of the arrests, stayed for a short while to try and help gather bail money, and then began driving to Panther national headquarters in Berkeley, California. He said he was planning to make a report and then turn himself in. It seems probable he was also trying to reach national head-quarters in a desperate search for clarification as to George Sams' status in the Party and his reasons for ordering Rackley's murder...
...first it seemed as if the congress might simply have been a good opportunity for theologians to gather and learn how far they had come since Vatican II and how far they had yet to go. Sponsored by Concilium, a five-year-old international journal of theology edited by some of Catholicism's most progressive thinkers, the congress provided an array of theological superstars including The Netherlands' Edward Schillebeeckx, France's Yves Congar, Germany's Karl Rahner, Hans Küng and Johan Metz. Participants came from 32 countries, including 40 from Asia, Africa and Latin...