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Enough of this undirected philosophizing, I hear you saying. Put your money where your mouth is, and then remove it and somehow paste it onto this page so the readers can read it. The headline catcher this week is Phillip Berrigan. Berrigan first stepped into the limelight as an anti-war activist of particularly strong beliefs, although this week he will rail against nuclear arms and nuclear energy. Or take Harvey Wasserman, a leader of the Clamshell Alliance, the group that staged the demonstration at the Sea brook nuclear power plant site, and Sidney Lens, a peace and labor activist...
...hundreds of other youngsters, even after the court has ordered otherwise. In an "intake part"-a court that, among other things, determines whether a kid should be held or paroled pending a hearing-Judge Phillip Thurston calls for the next docket number. It involves a 15-year-old, already being held on a narcotics charge, who had been remanded to a privately run shelter. Now he is to have a new hearing on a car theft. There is an awkward silence after the judge asks, "Well, where is he?" Papers are shuffled, and a probation officer announces: "Judge, he wasn...
From 1970 to 1973, agents of the Justice Department's Internal Security Division (since abolished) convened an estimated 100 grand juries in 80 cities in pursuit of assorted radicals, including associates of Daniel Ellsberg, Phillip Berrigan and Abbie Hoffman. Actual convictions were rare-but jail terms for contempt of the grand jury (refusal to answer questions) were not. Complaints about federal grand jury abuse have not been confined to the left, however. Last week General Motors Corp. Attorney George Moscarino accused IRS agents of abusing the system by summoning GM employees before a Detroit grand jury on what...
King of Hearts. Except for the possible exception of a moviehouse in Minnesota or somewhere that has been screening Hal Ashby's Harold and Maude for the past five years straight, the Central Square Cinema probably holds the modern record for a consecutive run of one film and this Phillip deBroca farce is it. About a World War One soldier who liberates the patients in a country nursing home and joins them in a jolly romp around about the streets of a small town, it is the perfect parable of Cambridge life. Free and freaky--but within bounds, harmless...
Charles Kavoloski and Phillip Oliver at the School for the Arts...