Word: holding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nagging Questions. What grudge did Ray hold against King? What brought the two men to Memphis at a time when Ray, an escaped convict, was a restless wanderer always on the move be tween Montreal and Mexico? How did he finance 14 months on the run from prison? Where did he find the cash that paid for his 1966 white Mustang? His dancing lessons? A course at a Los Angeles bartenders' academy? How did he pay for his flight from Memphis to Toronto, and thence to Europe? Even Ray wanted to talk about a conspiracy at his trial...
Predictive astrology, like divination and occultism generally, tends to take hold in times of confusion, uncertainty and the breakdown of religious belief. Astrologers and assorted sorcerers were busy in Rome while the empire was declining and prevalent throughout Europe during the great 17th century waves of plague. Today's young stargazers claim to be responding to a similar sense of disintegration and disenchantment. This fact disturbs social activists and reformers like crusading Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin, who fulminates: "The growing interest in astrology is a beautiful example of the lobotomized passivity that results from the alienating influence of modern...
...important;" she said, "in fact, it's good. All we know right now is that the energy for change at Harvard is tremendous. It's flowing all around. We want to bring some of it together. Details will take care of themselves--we want, on one level, just to hold out to people a vision of education as it might be. The education we've got right now is in bad shape. You might call it sterile...
...play that opens tonight on the mainstage of the Loeb Drama Center. Its cast was not playing dead, however; what it was doing--lying motionless, stretched out on the floor of the dance studio--was putting into practice some ideas about acting and drama that are currently taking hold in a lot of Harvard minds...
...other alternative, that of a system which supercedes political parties, is likely to produce more instability. This is probable because of it does into organize as a party which seeks political office, it will always represent so direct a challenge to those people who do hold power that it will probably provoke a violent and overwhelming response from the ruling class...