Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left his home in Tuscon, Arizona for some California grass...
...according to the students, who said they had merely been walking in a group of some 75 to 100 to watch firemen put out a grass fire. Without warning or provocation, they said, the police opened up in a murderous fusillade of shotgun, pistol and rifle fire. Said Charles W. Hildebrand, a student: "At first I thought they were firing blanks, but then somebody, yelled, 'Oh Lord, I'm hit!' I felt a blow, like a brick, on the back of my leg. I went down and got up and I was hit again...
...that before I really unleashed all my feelings about the media, I really ought to make one more try." He called it a "sensitizing tour," and organized it partly to convince the national press that he has moved the league into a position of greater militancy and cooperation with grass-roots black movements. Far more important, he wanted to expose this group to the physical setting, the chaotic swirl of self-help activity and the continuing problems of the nation's depressed areas. The result was a bewildering, moving, and highly educational experience...
...HUNGRY GRASS by Richard Power. 288 pages. Dial...
...When Grass criticizes contemporary German society in his novels and plays (a new play concerning a leftist student and a bourgeois dentist just opened in Berlin), he is not always successful, either as writer or as propagandist. The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising is proof of that. But in these speeches, he bluntly and without false pretenses practises the involvement in politics by German citizens that he espouses...