Word: parks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amorphous assemblage of hippies, yippies, students and others falling into no classification-took over the plot. They plowed the ground and, with $1,000 raised among themselves and neighborhood businessmen, planted trees, flowers and grass. They installed benches, a sandbox and swings. Up went a sign: "People's Park." Abstract sculptures and mobiles of metal, wood and glass appeared. Sunday-afternoon rock concerts were organized...
...best. To university officials, it was a challenge to their plans and a possible staging zone for summer riots. To the radicals, the university's attitude was the issue they had been looking for, comparable with Columbia's plan to build a gym in a public park. They declared squatters' rights and dared the university to throw them...
...noon, Student Body President Don Siegal raised the cry: "Let's go down there and take the park." He led a crowd of 1,800 down Telegraph Avenue, straight into a clash with about 300 police. The demonstrators hurled rocks; the cops responded with tear gas. County sheriff's deputies, who later claimed that they had been attacked with steel pipes and bricks, opened up with an antiriot weapon new to the area: twelve-gauge shotguns firing low-velocity birdshot. Four youths on a rooftop were sprayed, two wounded seriously. One lost his spleen, a kidney and part...
...university had made its point.Or had it? Said Sim Van Der Ryn, chairman of the chancellor's advisory committee on housing and environment: "The People's Park was a great idea. The university just seems to be mad that they didn't think of it first." Asserting the need for the fence, Heyns admitted: "That's a hard way to make the point, but that's the way it has to be." At week's end, 1,200 National Guardsmen patrolled the streets and the park was closed off and empty. Continued agitation...
Nabokov's literary province is a bizarre, aristocratic, occasionally maddening amusement park in part devoted to literary instruction. It has many sideshows but only one magician. The general public, which chose to read Lolita as a prurient tale of pedophilia, enters through the main gate, hoping to meet the creator of that doomed and delectable child. A more sophisticated clientele moves beyond the midway to seek out and applaud Dr. Nabokov, the butterfly chaser, dealer in anagrammatical gimcracks, triple-tongued punster, animator of Doppelgänger, shuffler of similes. Prolonged exposure to Nabokov reveals much more. What he calls his "ever...