Word: kent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Portage County, Ohio, courthouse last week, the trials began for the first of the Kent 25-students, outsiders and one professor indicted a year ago for rioting, arson and other crimes supposedly committed just before the campus shootings of May 4, 1970. On that day, four students were killed and ten wounded by National Guard gunfire. The same grand jury that handed down the indictments exonerated the National Guardsmen of any blame for the deaths. Last week a trial jury of eight men and four women visited the campus to examine the site of the slayings. TIME Correspondent William Friedman...
Peter Brook is nothing if not decisive. He senses a certain unwieldiness to the text and without hesitation cuts whatever he considers to be excess. Shakespeare's introductory scene between the Earls of Gloucester and Kent is eliminated; the film begins immediately with the parcelling of the kingdom among the three daughters. The first words are Lear's "Know we have divided-in three our kingdom...", Brook thrusting us into crisis at once. Within five minutes Cordelia has already refused to publicly acclaim her love for her father. Lear has disowned her, and the central dramatic movement...
...shortened and presented as part of a dialogue between Edmund and his brother. Jack McGowran's Fool is more than competent but too clearly the sage unrecognized. And, incomprehensibly, Brook leaves out two of the best lines in the play, Lear's dying "Pray you undo this button," and Kent's "Break, heart; I prithee break," after his king's death...
...Kent State trial defendants was convicted of a misdemeanor yesterday, and the case against a second was dismissed...
...National Campus Ministry organization she met Richard Griffin, who, sensing a vital opportunity to add much needed feminine input into an over masculinized Church, invited her to Harvard. With perhaps prophetic meaning for what females might do within the Catholic Church, she arrived at Harvard amidst the turmoil of Kent and Jackson and Cambodia and the Spring Strike...