Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TRIP DOWN. We left not long after midnight Thursday. Luck was with us: we had a Volkswagen bus to get us there, and a house in Georgetown to hold us. But all was not pleasant. Outside, a cold rain fell; and inside, with ten people and luggage, we could hardly move...
...Around midnight, police carried rifles around Dupont Circle, and trucks filled with National Guardsmen patrolled the streets. By that time, only 300 protestors remained in the area...
...MIDNIGHT COWBOY. Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman, two of the screen's biggest antiheroes, find compassion and companionship in each other to make this one of the most memorable love stories in American cinema history...
Most people who left the demonstration around 7 p.m. Saturday night felt that while there were a few isolated cases of brutality by Federal Marshals, on the whole the troops had been well behaved in the face of a great deal of abuse and provocation. Those who stayed until midnight-when the last reporters had gone home and the last T.V. crew (BBC) had been told that it couldn't use its spot light because it was provoking incidents-went away with an entirely different impression...
...Near midnight, the tempo of arrests and clubbing accelerated. People started singing all the old Civil Rights songs over and over. They sang because they were scared and because they felt less alone when thy could hear their own righteousness and the unity of the group ringing in their ears. They sang because otherwise they would have screamed or cried or run away. They linked their arms and legs, not so much because they didn't want to be dragged away, but because it was cold, they were scared, and holding onto someone else was reassuring...