Word: hall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lady should have to compete with a bullhorn, even if she has the vocal equipment to drown out a dozen of them. Policemen in a Tampa, Fla. concert hall were trying hard to restrain a surging, frenzied audience reacting typically to Janis Joplin's Try a Little Harder. The cops resorted to a bullhorn, and that annoyed Janis. "Listen," she shouted, "I know there won't be any trouble if you'll just leave!" The officers refused and sounded the horn again. That did it. Janis, as a fan reported, "simply went nuts," blistering the air with...
...went to Lowell Lecture Hall. As we entered the inner doors, a multi-sensory flash suggested that perhaps my preconceptions were a tad inaccurate. I saw twice as many people as I have ever seen in a lecture hall. The crowd made last year's standing-room-only SDS meetings look like steering committee caucuses. I led interference for my friend, and with good cheer we barreled our way through the aisles to look for seats...
Eventually everyone on stage was too tired or drunk to read or play, and we emptied out of the hall. The cold was refreshing after the body heat and smoke of indoors. We strolled through the Yard, talking about Brautigan and hoping to be things that we aren...
When the students entered Fay House, the Radcliffe administration building, with the intention of speaking with Mrs. Bunting, Britton met them in the hall. He told the students that they had come on a "unilateral invitation" and that Mrs. Bunting had other commitments...
Britton said that the differential is partly based on the different capacities of house dining rooms. "North House, where the chefs work, has a capacity twice that of either East or South House," he said. When a girl from North House told him that the Holmes Hall dining room is never filled, he said, "That's beside the point...