Word: lincolnization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NIGHT of August 26, NBC's camera crew was sent to Lincoln Park, where the first real confrontation between police and protesters was expected to take place. The demonstrators were determined to spend the night there; the police had been instructed to run them...
...matter of judgment. When no citizens complained, he felt, it was sometimes better to ignore a technical law violation than to create a major problem. Grant Park was to have its share of disruptions, but they did not happen on schedule every night, as they did in Lincoln Park...
Moreover, as Lincoln Park was swept by lines of police each night, the intruders were driven into the streets of the Near North Side and Old Town, Chicago's version of Greenwich Village. The police then found it necessary to reassemble and drive the demonstrators-by now intermingled with passers-by and curious spectators-off the streets. A clergyman complained that "by pushing these young people from the park, the police create a larger law-enforcement problem than they have if they let the youths remain in the park...
...police themselves were prone to rumors, sometimes spread by their own intelligence reports. Before clearing Lincoln Park on Tuesday night, the cops heard that the demonstrators were armed with sharpened spears and at least one shotgun, and that they had strung piano wire from tree to tree at neck height in order to discourage the advancing police. None of these threats materialized, but they must have aggravated the officers' tense mood as they moved to the attack...
Endgame--Samuel Beckett's play, an absurdist's version of "King Lear" as some would have it. At TEMPO THEATRE, 130-34 Lincoln Street...