Word: pigged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This Little Piggy. The yippies want merely to mock the system. During a five day "Festival of Life," they plan to nominate a pig named Pigasus for President. The Chicago police department did not see much humor in the idea. The cops threw seven yippies and their candidate into a paddy wagon when they appeared in Civic Center Plaza. Pigasus was carted, squealing all the way, to the Humane Society...
...cohesive armies in history-an uncoordinated alliance of hippies, yippies, antiwar militants, unhappy liberals and far-out radicals. Goals vary from outright disruption of the convention proceedings to a ribald mockery of the electoral system. The yippies (members of the Youth International Party) plan to nominate a 220-Ib. pig, Pigasus, for President, on a platform of garbage-"just like the platform of all the other parties." Groups led by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet Nam are altogether more serious. Says Coordinator Rennie Davis: "We want to focus attention...
...World has run very little news of the party, which is not making much news these days in the U.S. Nor is ideology pervasive in all stories. A critic took exception to an off-Broadway play, The American Pig, which ridicules life in the U.S. "The idea of satirizing vulgarity by being more vulgar backfires," wrote the critic. "If you murder art-somebody is going to pay for it." In the old days, it would have been rank heresy for a Communist to value art above social content...
...soul concept becomes a mystique, a glorification of Negritude in all its manifestations. The soul brother makes a point of emphasizing Negro inflections such as "yo" for "your," of abandoning slang words and phrases as soon as they reach universal currency, of eating foods such as chitlins, pig's feet and black-eyed peas, in mastering a loose, cocky way of walking down the street?in doing all the things that are closed off or alien to Whitey...
Amanda is never seen. Presumably, no pig was willing to take the part...