Word: mavericks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group of about seven white youths shouting racial epithets attacked Dennis J. Henderson '79, who is black, in the Maverick Square MBTA station in East Boston last Friday night...
...Jimmy, with his strong civil rights record and direct experience with busing's shortcomings, can give leadership in"--Carter shows some signs of slippage. On the one hand, leading Georgia civil rights figures who have backed Carter in the past, such as Julian Bond and Maynard Jackson, have shown maverick impulses--Bond attacked Carter's hiring record in a speech in Boston last month (causing Mark Zweicher, a Business School student and Carter aide, to grumble in the back of the bus, "Julian's looking for some limelight, and we think he's on the Harris payrole anyway"), and rumor...
...Carter battles to improve his position, some officials at the Democratic National Committee have begun privately to criticize him. The Georgian makes some Democrats nervous because he is running as a maverick; no one knows quite what to make of him at this point or what he will do in the months ahead. For Jimmy Carter, a sure sign of progress is not only the friends he has won but the opponents he has made. They are taking him seriously...
Moderates on the Revolutionary Council were helpless against moves by organized pressure groups in the army and among the workers. Attempts to replace maverick leftist General Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho−who openly sympathizes with riotous workers' demonstrations−as military commander of Lisbon failed when leftist commanders of the Lisbon units met and refused to accept Otelo's successor. The defeat was an ominous one for Pinheiro de Azevedo's Sixth Provisional government...
Died. Pier Paolo Pasolini, 53, maverick Italian film director, poet and novelist; after being bludgeoned with a fence post and run over by his own Alfa Romeo driven by a 17-year-old boy whom he had picked up; in Ostia, Italy. A Marxist with a nostalgia for Catholicism, and a known homosexual, Pasolini managed to rouse the wrath of Italy's Catholics and Communists alike. In 1961 his first major film, Accattone, drew clerical criticism for its romanticizing of pimps and prostitutes. Three years later Pasolini made The Gospel According to St. Matthew, which angered the left with...