Word: kent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fought a never-ending battle for truth, justice and the American Way? Christopher Reeve, of course. Faster than a speeding bullet, Reeve finished making Superman II and leaped to Williamstown, Mass., for a summer-stock revival of the 1928 classic, The Front Page. He may have ducked into a phone booth to change to period costume, but he has not left journalism. As Hildy Johnson, not-so-mild-mannered reporter for the Chicago Herald-Examiner, he fights a never-ending battle to prevent truth from getting...
...didn't quite turn out that way on the streets of Cambridge--though 19 days later at Kent State and 30 days later at Jackson State the prediction would prove apt enough--but the comment reflected the tenor of the times. Police shut down Widener and Lamont Libraries after receiving an anonymous bomb threat. We might not always do this, they say, but in times like these we have to. For the hell of it one day, about 15 kids, aged ten to 13 according to reports, decided to have some fun. They stood on the Weeks Memorial Bridge...
...took Richard Nixon's invasion of Cambodia and the subsequent atrocities at Kent Sate to get the mass of students actively involved in efforts to stop the war. Four days after Nixon's April 30 announcement, a meeting of 2700 students and faculty members put Harvard, like more than 300 schools across the nation, on strike. They demanded that the U.S. "unilaterally and immediately withdraw all forces from Southeast Asia," that the U.S. halt "its systematic oppression of political dissidents and release all political prisoners," and that "universities immediately end defense research, ROTC, counter-insurgency research, and all other such...
...evil. He inspired a visceral contempt among students, who counted on him to supply a symbol of arrogance and decadence. The distaste was mutual. "When dissent turns to violence it invites tragedy," Nixon said, equating protest with murder, on the day four students were killed by National Guardsmen at Kent State...
WEIRDNESS IS "Dr." Hunter S. Thompson's trademark. The father of New--or what he calls "Gonzo"--Journalism, Thompson helped shatter the image of the solemn, mild-mannered reporter by writing pieces that would have turned Clark Kent's blue hair white. As a Rolling Stone correspondent and in his Fear and Loathing books, he chronicled his lavatory run-ins with Richard Nixon and George McGovern and his experiences with grass, mescaline, acid, cocaine, uppers, downers, Wild Duck, Budweiser and ether. In between trips, he produced some of the most incisive perceptions of the sixties and early seventies in print...