Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stratford, England. In 1616, the famous son was buried in that same small church-which makes it all the sadder that today Stratford's Holy Trinity Church is a dilapidated ruin in dire need of restoration before it crumbles to the ground. Now to the rescue comes a group of Shakespeare devotees who have organized a $480,000 fund-raising drive to finance repairs. Said Sir Michael Redgrave, one of the leaders of the appeal: "Surely the need is self-evident. This church, this grave, is one of the great pilgrimage points of the world...
...group dutifully followed Reisner to the men's room. "It's a gold mine," Reisner exulted. Three at a time, they crowded into the dingy lavatory to savor the myriad scrawls that adorned the walls and even the ceiling. "Listen to this!" said one of the girls, copying furiously in her notebook. "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be." "Marvelous!" said Reisner...
After noting down the best items, the group trooped off in search of other bars and other public lavatories. It was a typical field trip for Anthropology 2675-2, "Graffiti: Past and Present," which Reisner teaches at Manhattan's New School for Social Research. Though conducted with much low good humor, the course is anything but frivolous. The graffito, explains Reisner, "is always a sensitive barometer of change in popular preoccupations. It is a twilight means of communication between the anonymous man and the world...
City Anonymity. The university study group, Dr. E. Stewart Taylor reports, found that 52 of the aborted patients were under 16, and 135 were aged 16 to 21, while 157 were in the 22-35 bracket and 63 were over 35. There were 230 women who had not previously had a child, and 226 were unmarried; 123 had one to three children, and only 54 had four or more children. In addition to the 226 single women, 43 of those aborted were divorced, leaving only 138 currently married...
...Episcopal priest from Newark, told the meeting that blacks must get rid of the "honkified God" who, he charged, has been imposed on Negroes by white Christians. The Rev. Herbert Bell Shaw, a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and president of the committee, called on the group to evolve "a message and a dynamic leadership for the peculiar and urgent needs of the black people." The present religious task, added the Rev. Melvin Talbert, a Methodist district superintendent in California, "is to help black people find themselves, to restore to the black man a sense of dignity...