Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DESPITE THE VERY personal nature of this exchange--unsuccessfully masked by the metaphors of institution and regulation --the sensed presence of a third and fourth individual hovers over the first eight letters like the CRR photographer at an obstructive picket line, making itself felt explicitly only in the very final exchange. I refer in part, of course, to the requisite Other Woman. How much is left unsaid by the simple title "vice president" consistently attached to Katherine Moos's name does not become clear until, following Epps's request that she designate an SDS member to supervise security. Moos replies...
...they got no shame?" that is the basic question here. April rain falls in the windless chill of the night outside. A picket line, chanting, marches to the song on the loud speaker. "For God's sakes, you gotta give more power to the people," the song goes, and the pickets, no longer a mere line of defense against the potential bust of Mass Hall, chant on rhythm: "Soul Power! Give More Power to the People," Clenched fists, black and white, thrust up into the rain. "Ain't they got no shame...
...comes due again tonight, has constituted a somewhat vague mandate for action, and one which has been open to conflicting interpretations. As was appropriate in the tense, bust-expectant atmosphere of that meeting, there was little political discussion. People came to pass resolutions. Once finished they adjourned to the picket lines in front of Mass Hall where the sense of one of those strike resolutions-"we collectively support PALC and Afro in occupation of Mass Hall and demand amnesty"-was immediately embodied...
...occupation of Massachusetts Hall by Afro and the Pan-African Liberation Committee went into its fourth day this morning as rain-soaked supporters continued an around-the-clock picket line in front of the building...
...Boston Red Sox come off of the picket line and back to the country club today, opening the belated American league season against the Tigers this, afternoon in Detroit...