Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clock in at their jobs at noon, when their work day usually begins, they were ordered to take turns reporting to army garrisons for four hours a day of marching. Some also got trips to the army barber and showed up for their regular jobs with considerably shorter hair. Pacheco's point was to "militarize" the clerks, a status that could make their next strike tantamount to desertion, or at the very least cost them their treasured pension rights. They were not among last week's strikers...
...father and mother, for our teachers, for the universe," he muses. "From that came a certain discipline. That is what I miss." The self-indulgent style of some of the youngsters coming up in today's foundation-fed music world appalls him. "If they wear sunglasses, long hair and have dirty fingernails, how can I see how their soul is, or hear it in their quartet...
...super-reality. The sallow leaves of a dead cactus writhe upward like a petrified fountain. A palm hangs against the sky like a bursting skyrocket. On the ground, a beetle crawls. Above it, crouches a man - no figment of a dream but a com pact figure with grey thinning hair, a potato nose, and dressed all in sober brown. "Once," he "I was passionate about insects. I painted many of them." In fact, he still does...
Nonetheless, Custer was celebrated in the press and by his wife, Elizabeth Bacon Custer, who published her romanticized memoirs of the late "Yellow Hair" in 1885. The Custer cult was heightened in 1941, when Errol Flynn played him as a bold unfortunate in Warner Bros.' They Died with Their Boots On. In this new film, Custer's misbegotten career is further enhanced. Robert Shaw plays Yellow Hair as a soulful glory seeker. Lawrence Tierney is a feisty General Phil Sheridan, Jeffrey Hunter a conscientious Lieut. Benteen and Robert Ryan a deserter named Mulligan, who was shot before...
Knoxville's power structure has consistently harrassed student body members. Over 400, about half of the student body, have been taken downtown for interrogation. Students report being asked, "Why is your hair like that? You and who else killed Boruff? Did outsiders start trouble over there? Who are the black power troublemakers...