Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tearing Down, Digging Up. Of all the cities under the planner's knife, none has been so deeply and continuously committed to renewing itself as the city where the Declaration of Independence was signed: Philadelphia...
...parallel the ritual of the bullfight, and a reader assumes that Celestino's four pains are merely Montherlant's notion of a heart attack. Not so. The police come, flip poor Celestino over, and discover "four thin clean holes which might have been made by a knife or sword." Has Celestino been murdered in some highly symbolic fashion? Apparently not; nor is there any hint that the supernatural is involved. Celestino's death is, rather, superliterary. He is the first character in the history of the novel to be killed by a wholly nonexistent symbol. This...
Tchula: COFO staff member arrested for carrying a concealed weapon, a bread knife. Car impounded. Police have set up road blocks and are interrogating people who attend local COFO community center...
...undergraduate and a Law School alumnus subdued a 19-year-old, knife-carrying youth in the Radcliffe Quad Saturday night as he was attacking a Radcliffe girl in the bushes outside Cabot Hall...
...younger Robinson who edits a literary magazine, said he had been attracted by commotion near the Yard and saw Robbins crossing Massachusetts Ave., his hand bleeding. He said the youth, knife in hand, started toward Garden St., staggering as if drunk. As he crossed the street he lunged at a passing cyclist with the knife...