Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next day, Tuesday, the platform committee meets, approves a strong peace plank calling for an end to the war in Viet Nam, endorses black power and recommends a massive infusion of federal funds into the nation's cities. All-Negro delegations from the South are seated without challenge...
...Wednesday, seats in the amphitheater are filled early. Convention Chairman Thruston Morton gavels the delegates to order. Ted Kennedy strides to the platform, and after a frenetic ten-minute ovation nominates Nelson Rockefeller for President. After an hour's floor demonstration, Allard Lowenstein, chairman of the New York delegation, moves that the delegates nominate Rockefeller by acclamation, and the delegates respond without a single dissenting vote...
Lindsay, in a passionate appeal for nonpartisanship, proposes Eugene McCarthy for Vice President, and again the nomination is unanimously approved. In the evening, Rockefeller and McCarthy appear together on the platform. Rocky acknowledges the cheers with repeated winks, then cries: "Let the new politics continue from this day forward!" McCarthy predicts that "the Fusion Party will sweep to victory in November...
...slightly raised platform a musician (Jeff Fuller) sits improvising, in an appropriate raga, a preludial alapa on his sitar. Gradually a number of young men enter, wearing leis of orange and yellow flowers, and assume yoga positions. As bowls of incense waft their frangance, the sitar is joined off-stage by the traditional tambura drone and tabla rhythms...
...French railway station a woman bids goodbye to a friend. Then she boards the train-and sneaks out on the other side of the platform. A classic Hitchcock opening for a film that is missing only one vital ingredient: Alfred Hitchcock. In the maestro's place, however, is his greatest disciple, Director Francois Truffaut, who considers Hitchcock "an artist of anxiety" to be placed alongside Kafka...