Word: hails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN student activism lulled following the chaos of the student strikes of 1969 and 1970, many observers were quick to hail the demise of campus politics and the growth of alcohol, drugs and apathy. Last Spring the political somnolence of Harvard students was shaken, if not to full wakefulness, at least to a semi-conscious state...
Carmines' contemporary maid of Manhattan needs no Dauphin to betray her; church, state and even some of her friends vie for that role. She lives in the East Village with Ira the Junkie (Ira Siff) and Tracy (Tracy Moore), a slogan-shouting nobody. The three hail the blessings of unlicensed polyandry by singing "Now we understand the Trinity . . ." Lumbering home one night, Joan (Lee Guilliatt) meets a miniskirted doll (Essie Borden) who is-what else? -the Virgin Mary enjoying a one-day pass from Camp Paradise. The encounter makes a revolutionary of Joan, who goes to her preordained...
COME out," shouted the policeman through a loudspeaker. "Your chances are zero." The defiant answer from the men trapped in a garage in a residential section of Frankfurt last week was a hail of gunfire. The police, supported by a lumbering armored car, poured bullets and tear-gas canisters into the building. Then, after there were screams from the garage, the police commanded the outlaws to take off their clothes and come out one by one. Clad only in dark shorts, the first to surrender was Holger Meins, 30 (left), a key member of the notorious terrorist gang bossed...
...gradual growth of his mind. After the early Paris period when he thought his feet could take him farther than his head, he entered a blurry "transcendental" phase culminating in the Irish sojourn. In that "Victorian lagoon," even the fighting seemed unreal. He arrived at Cork terrified by a hail of machine-gun fire, only to be reassured by the urchin carrying his bag: " Tis only the boys from the hills." In Ireland he met his first true writers-Yeats and O'Casey among others-and he dreamed of becoming an "artist" whose art could be determined later...
Israelis or visitors who are unwise enough to drive their cars through the ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim section of Jerusalem on the Sabbath often encounter a hail of stones. A teen-age girl who naively walks through the same district in a miniskirt may find herself angrily chased by Orthodox youths shouting "Zonah! Zonah!" ("Whore! Whore!"). Many pathologists in Israeli hospitals receive death threats from Orthodox fanatics for performing autopsies, which according to Orthodoxy are a desecration of the dead. Hospitals in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv closed down briefly in protest against police failure to curb the threats...