Word: intents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harris began his Life at 65 with the avowed intent of "showing young men how to use the machine gun of their sex." He finished it only two years before his death at 75. A visitor to his retreat in the south of France reported that at the last the old man bitterly regretted ever having written it, confessing that he did it chiefly because he needed the money. But even before he finished the last chapter, he was suffering from brief spasms of self-knowledge. "Every idiot who has ever met me," he wrote, "talks of my extraordinary conceit...
When two police cars pulled up to the gas station-residence several minutes later, the officers asked the band to leave, but did not seam to guess their mischievous intent, reported Edward H. Flitton III '64, manager of the band...
...immediately Zev Aelony, 25, a former student at the University of Minnesota, who had been charged only with incitement to insurrection. Perdew, Donald Harris, 25, a Hutgers graduate; and Ralph W. Allen, a student on leave from Trinity, had been charged with rioting, assisting in escape, and assault with intent to murder, as well as incitement and unlawful assembly. The court fixed bail at $2000 each, and it was promptly paid...
Oracular Instincts. Graham's dancing today is a grace remembered. She has become fragile and precarious onstage. The mute eloquence of her gestures is now as terse as it is cryptic; her dances are only sketches of her intent. But the 19 other dancers-nine male, ten female-in her company are all masters of the "virile gestures" that, she says, "are evocative of the only true beauty." Movement is full of the strain and pain academic ballet attempts to conceal, and each step is meant as a metaphor that tells of the life of the heart. Barefoot...
Gideon, now 52, already had a prison record when he was arrested in 1961, charged with breaking into a pool hall with intent to commit burglary. At his trial in a Florida state court, he asked the judge to appoint a lawyer to defend him. The judge denied the request, pointed out that under Florida law the court was required to appoint counsel only when a person was charged with a capital crime. Gideon conducted his own defense, was found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison. When the Supreme Court ruled on his petition last March...