Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Working in the backyard of a retired Antioch drama professor, in Yellow Springs, Ohio, the Otrabandists assembled a raft by strapping flooring and two-by-fours to twelve 50-gallon drums donated by a local company. They added a canoe to trail behind for occasional jaunts to shore, then trucked the whole caboodle to St. Louis and launched The River Raft Revue-"at the world's most popular price: free!!" (The National Endowment grant of $15,000 is enough to cover expenses and possibly provide $25 per week in salary for each actor...
...domestic crises," Michener informed his readers, "that did and did not have to do with the war." Presumably, this is not the sort of sentence that makes Michener's books best-sellers, although he does proceed to paint an appealing picture of thousands of perplexed Americans flocking to his Ohio home for guidance on the difficult question of whether to impeach President Nixon. He advised them not to; the shilly-shallying ambiguity of the sentence I've quoted suggests the reason...
...made war on political democracy in order to keep Vietnam free, the American government began to undermine American democracy for the good of the republic. Demonstrators were no longer exercising their Constitutional rights; they were "bums;" it was all right to club them in Chicago, or shoot in Ohio, or herd into jail in Washington. Newspapers were no longer the safeguard of democracy, the cornerstone of a republican state. Or rather, they were now more than ever the safeguard of democracy--which was no longer acceptable to democracy's defenders. Nixon so feared people's knowing the truth about what...
...Mary Ann Ferguson got an appointment teaching English at the University of Massachusetts while her husband remained at Ohio State. "I thought I should be home on weekends because our youngest daughter was in her last year in high school." Concerning her marriage, she says, "Being apart hurts...
...male-female ratio that President Bok announced two years ago has resulted in an increase of about 300 students. The new dorm, which will be called Canaday Hall after Ward M. Canaday '07, the Toledo, Ohio oil magnate who donated the $3 million building fee, will lessen the crowded housing conditions in the Yard and the Houses...