Word: letting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the 40 minute bus ride from Cambridge City Hall to the Army Base, both students handed out Boston Draft Resistance Group leaflets and encouraged fellow draftees to resist induction. The mimeographed leaflets said, in summary, "LET'S NOT GO IN LIKE SHEEP." "The leaflet scared a lot of people away from us," said Shetterly...
...sick and tired of paper; I'm sick and tired of blue-prints; I'm sick and tired of speeches. But I can stay here until five in the morning. I'm not a professional orator, but I can talk," Vellucci paused for breath and then sighed, "Let's get on with the City business...
...calm DeGuglielmo then appeared before the council. He read a prepared statement detailing the projects of his administration, and said that, if he was to be removed, he supported a nation-wide search for his successor. His only plea was that the council--instead of appointing an interim manager--let him remain in office until the new manager was found...
Untamed Animal. But in music as in life, Mehta does not let occasional ragged spots bother him as long as his general progress remains as continuous and soaring as a Richard Strauss melody. The analogy is his own: he responds with special keenness to Strauss's music...
...Cream & Orange Juice. Finally Mehli Mehta relented, began teaching him the rudiments of the baton. One day, when Zubin was 16, his father let him conduct a Bombay Symphony rehearsal. "The moment he got onto the podium," says Bombay Cellist George Lester, "he instantly took command, gave us our correct cues and put us under his spell...