Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plan strategy and punish ourselves with thoughts of condominiums and never-more-than-ten-minutes-of-rain-a-day. Two dozen yards off, Bruce was pumping gas into the Miami-bound Lear jet, and we couldn't look for its pilot without risking a night in the Teterboro jail, if there was one. Things looked bleak...
...pleasant evening watching a provocative play about a complex man-a play which tosses out all sorts of philosophical tidbits on subjects like civil disobedience, the Universal One, deism and back-to-naturism-then it may not be a bad idea to go see The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail playing at Kirkland House this weekend...
...Robert E. Lee. is about Harvard's own Henry David Thoreau (played by Greg Landiss, a second year Harvard law student) and his decision to rejoin society. Thoreau has been arrested for with olding tax payments which would finance weapons used in the Mexican War. The night in jail is a turning point for Thoreau who, at age 29, is about to exchange his life of withdrawal for a life of social activism...
...Although initially the public received the veterans sympathetically. Nelson says in the late 1940s McCarthyism created an air of repression to which they fell victim. "They came into our office and just picked us up for possession of books and having ideas," Nelson says. He spent a year in jail from 1952-1953 before successfully appealing a 20-year sentence for sedition and violation of the Smith Act. Not until 1973 did the federal government remove the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade of which Nelson is currently national commander, from the Attorney General's list of subversive groups...
...Night Thoreau Spent in Jail at Kirkland House...