Word: nods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of it, a part that has no notes, only beats. The noteless music gets faster, more and more abstract, more and more supported by the rhythm in the listeners' minds that is added to the sounds coming in through their ears, until the music peaks, and with a nod to the rest of the band from both drummers, the drums roll out a lead-in, and the Dead play together again...
After the election, the names of the 92 winners went to Premier George Papadopoulos, who will give the final nod to 46 of them and add another ten candidates of his own to fill the committee's 56 seats. The committee will be expected to 1) "debate and comment" on legislation, in the junta's words, but not too acidulously; 2) offer the government a "cross section of public opinion," but not a very broad one; 3) serve as "a seedbed" for politicians of the future, but certainly not as a hotbed...
Chancellor Charles Young. "We are not going back to the apathy of the '50s, but the intensity of the last few years is no longer with us." Most of Young's colleagues nod only cautious assent. Student distrust of the Nixon-Agnew Administration remains high. The youth counterculture flourishes. Another Cambodian invasion or a heating up of the war in Viet Nam could touch off large-scale turmoil. Yet even the casual visitor finds a new climate on U.S. campuses this fall-a new mood of detachment that may well signal the end of large-scale student activism...
...laying his finger aside of his nose and giving a nod up the chimney he rose...
...When the nod went instead to Catanzaro, a much smaller city (pop. 82,000) 75 miles away, Reggio exploded. There were five days of street violence in July in which one civilian was killed and several policemen were injured. A bitter mood of rebellion grew against "the Bourbons" in Rome. Shopkeepers shuttered their stores and bankers locked their vaults. Schools were closed...