Word: pigging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blind Pig. Typically enough, Detroit's upheaval started with a routine police action. Seven weeks ago, in the Virginia Park section of the West Side, a "blind pig" (afterhours club) opened for business on Twelfth Street, styling itself the "United Community League for Civic Action." Along with the afterhours booze that it offered to minors, the "League" served up black-power harangues and curses against Whitey's exploitation. It was at the blind pig, on a sleazy strip of pawnshops and bars, rats and pimps, junkies and gamblers, that the agony began...
Died. Dr. Hein von Diringshofen, 67, German pioneer in aviation and space medicine, who in the early 1930s was the first to study the effects of high gravity forces and weightlessness on the human body, frequently used himself as a guinea pig in hell-diving Stukas and free-fall parachute jumps, in 1934 constructed the first experimental human centrifuge, predecessor of the ones now used in training astronauts, later served as the Luftwaffe's chief medical officer in World War II; of cancer; in Frankfurt, Germany...
John Munger as the Duke was the symbol of the conflict. His lines are grandiloquent -- flatulent as a bursting pig's blatter, but grandiloquent. Munger proclaims them with full voice, but he is physically too small for the part. There is something wonderfully absurd about his talk of war and glory. If he is meant to be funny, the audience should be given some hint of it before the whole affair becomes so ridiculous that laughter is the only...
...shaped loaves. Fruit and vegetables come live and kicking from baskets and boxes. You want meat? Then go next door to the butcher. There's sure to be one. Outside his store freshly slaughtered lambs and rabbits (still with head and fur) hang from red hooks, and well preserved pig heads leer through the front window. Inside Al or Louie or Joe is cutting government choice to your order...
Being a Christian will not mean knowing a set of right answers to certain difficult problems, he said. "A Christian should be a guinea pig, and the Church is the laboratory." This is a gruesome policy, Stendahl admitted, especially for the layman who has muddled his way through complexities all week and comes to church to hear some nice, simple principles. "But principles are never practicable," he said...