Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...site of King's murder, Memphis, flecks of violence ended with a 7 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew. Tear gas and smoke bombs thrown by young blacks almost panicked a crowd of about 3,000 waiting outside city hall. As a wind whipped acrid gas through the ranks of demonstrators, youths began smashing store windows and looting. But there were cheers when Senator Edward Kennedy, making a surprise appearance at the rally, eulogized King and his own two murdered brothers, dedicating his public life to the principle "that we should not hate but love one another...
...German universities and took them over." Why are campus disorders spreading? "When they rip up one campus and all that happens is that their right to use the ice-cream-bar machine is revoked for one hour, what do you expect?" Should marijuana be legalized? "By all means. Also murder, rape and arson-then we could do away with all crime...
Died. W. Preston Battle, 60, Tennessee criminal-court judge who came to national prominence during the non-trial of James Earl Ray for the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; of a heart attack; in Memphis. Battle accepted a deal under which Ray pleaded guilty and was immediately sentenced to 99 years in prison. In response to the outcry that followed, the judge argued that a trial would still have left the issue of conspiracy and other questions up in the air. "My conscience," he said, "told me that it better served the ends of justice to accept...
...Little Murders, which is the work of cartoonist Jules Feiffer, is comedy drenched in blood. When I saw the original production, I loved it. But now I realized that it had to fail. It was too early--before public opinion revolted against the stupidity of Vietnam, before two back-to-back assassinations taught us the real meaning of murder...
Patsy is assassinated through the living room window at the beginning of the second act, and the rest of the play concerns the characters' attempts to give their world of murder some shape, some meaning. Alfred feels that the key to all is the "free floating constellation of dots" that makes up a newspaper photo. Carol decides, "We need a army!. . . An electrically charged fence. TV cameras in every room. . . . A return to common sense. . . . lobotomies for anyone who earns less than ten thousand a year Freedom!" But ultimately the family discovers that the only sanity left to them...