Word: marching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nchez, now 55, divorced his wife of 30 years and within three days married a beautiful younger woman, Lawyer Jeannette Ramos, who is 36. Aware of the problem that posed with his Roman Catholic constituency, the Governor announced at the same time that he would not seek reelection. By March, however, his confidence was so restored that he reversed his decision, against Muñoz's wishes...
...Babe and A Winter's Tale in Georgia. A ruined Southern family waits for the last murderous blow of the Civil War in Sherman's brazen march through the entire swamp of the South. The hurricane comes and the upheaval is as potent as it is wide-ranging. To Mrs. Chestnut, the Southern lady of the manor who tries to preserve her hopes, which comes to mean in the end simply preserving the life of her last son, the effects are puzzling but no more. To the blacks, (the only ones shown in the play are a group of captured...
...Sherman explains that his war is different fsom European wars because "we are fighting a hostile people whereas they fought among armies," this is not a scholarly, but, ultimately, a complete analysis of the reasons for which the Civil War is regarded as the first modern war. Sherman's march was the first "strategic rape" and it took a poet to explain it in those perfect words so the political scientists could adopt it later as a crude hypothesis to be refined. Both accounts are equally important, but Babe as a playwright is justified in only employing...
...crowd for a meeting. Maybe 50 people sitting, and another 25 standing in a circle around them. They began to talk about The Man--the police--coming to get them, and what to do about it. The consensus of the group seemed to be for a symbolic march to the local jail with a demand to be arrested, or if not that, simply sitting there and allowing the police to remove them...
...circle, which 20 minutes earlier had been thinking primarily about peaceful protest, was now talking about military strategy for the policeman-enemy. There was still opposition, of course. One bearded man, Leonard Wolfe, who had supported the march to the jail, argued in a half-whisper with Mark Dyen, of Harvard SDS, who supported mobile tactics...