Word: gills
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BRENDAN GILL 305 pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
Thus, in End of an Exceptionally Short Affair, the opening story of this well-wrought collection, Brendan Gill consciously gives his game away. All the relationships he examines are, as his title indicates, loving ones. The term is humanely extended to include not only lovers but also sexual partners, parents and children, employers and employees, and even masters and pets. In each, Gill searches out a truth that is greater than kindness. Usually it turns out to be the painful truth that lies, betrayal, jealousy and sometimes violence not only co-exist with love, but also grow imperceptibly...
...industrial complex is an evil thing does not correspond with reality"--promised that the Corporation would "do everything possible to keep ROTC." In protest, 450 SDS sympathizers met to vote down--three times--an anti-ROTC building occupation. Instead, 300 SDS people marched to Pusey's house--Jessie L. Gill, a militant member who acknowledged last spring that she'd been a CIA infiltrator, pushed a guard aside--and tacked six demands to his door. Three of the demands dealt with ROTC; the other three with university-community relations, an issue to which no one outside the later dominant...
...early January of 1942, in the Gill Laboratory building at Harvard, Louis F. Fieser, Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry Emeritus, perfected a jelled incendiary for military use and gave it the name napalm...
Mountain said that "Jessie Gill is just another name to me, like many others you read in the papers these days. She's not anything to be commented on." He would not say specifically whether he knew Gill or if she had worked...