Word: man
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PROPHECY at least has a social conscience, pretending to explore the white man's physical and moral pollution of Indian lands in Maine. Methyl mercury, used to soak lumber, gets into the fish, which is later consumed by animals and humans. The poison primarily affects the fetus, causing nasty mutations, one of which--a huge, snorting, blood-soaked pig (or something)--menaces federal health investigator Robert Foxworth, his pregnant wife, Talia Shire, and assorted noble Indians and opportunistic lumber executives...
...took place, when about 15 youths (apparently unconnected with SHAD) decided they would like to storm the place. So they charged the gate repeatedly, kicking and bloodying the hands of LILCO employees who tried to hold it up, and eventually knocked it over. Curiously, though, a no-man's land opened up as the youths backed off instead of entering, and the fence was repaired...
...They're nice people," muttered a LILCO security man sarcastically as he went for first aid, "they didn't mean no harm." The incident gave LILCO spokesman Jan Hickman a chance to lash out at SHAD: "I don't know if SHAD was directly involved, but this is not 'nonviolence' and it wouldn't have happened if it weren't for the kind of emotional garbage SHAD has been putting...
Informed of the violence, some SHAD protesters worried about the adverse publicity it might generate. Said a man from New York, "we're not here to piss people off or alienate them, we're here to make a point...
...wanted, to hear only good about their heroes. The historian Thomas Carlyle was an exception; he instructed his own biographer, James Anthony Froude, to put down the truth about him. But when he died and Froude did just that, telling how sour, self-centered and occasionally violent the great man really was, half of England denounced Froude as a scoundrel and a traitor. Biographies were popular in both Britain and America throughout the 19th century, but few modern readers could or would endure them. Speeches and letters were quoted at enormous length-a life of Lincoln ran to ten volumes...