Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...horrified by the incident at the People's Park [May 23]. The picture you published of the student with a stomach full of bullets will probably cause few of your readers the grief it deserves, and the casual tone of your reporting exemplifies the attitude with which many Americans will view this event. It is hard to believe that people will accept the maiming and possible murder of youth under the pretense of justice; certainly the students could have committed no crime equal to this...
...something that isn't yours. This property was paid for and owned by someone else. What the hippies did with the property was a very gentle thing, but it still was not theirs. I would like to take possession of the Wilshire area to develop into a lovely park but it's not mine...
...Perhaps it is that I am only 19, but the story of the ill-fated People's Park moved me to tears. It showed creativity and originality on one side, and blind obstinacy on the other. Perhaps Mark Twain explained it better...
Coach Loyal Park said he spoke to members of the NCAA rules committee last spring in Omaha and heard no opposition to his request that the ruling be dropped. Park assumed that they had followed his suggestion. He said he only learned a few weeks ago that the rule was still in effect...
...Moth Confesses is a record because Saussy wanted to write an opera more complex than an audience could understand in a single live performance. This "phonograph opera" becomes more resonant and eloquent with each replay. The style eludes easy description, except by comparison to MacArthur Park by Saussy's friend Jim Webb (whose influence is evident in The Moth's "Midsummer Night"and "Morning Girl," available out of context as a single). Both composers create serious and elaborate structures by joining an array of classical forms with borrowings from the sentimental popular music written for Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett...