Word: presidio
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...next couple of days my brother-in-law, Ray, kept the legend in tact. He took me around to the best parts of San Francisco. We started with Presidio, one of the most exclusive sections in town; the streets wind around each other, and the houses look out over the Pacific where it meets San Francisco...
...would bust my ass trying to be the first one into ANY fucking movie, you're wrong man, you're so wrong, so you've just gotta take it on faith when I put it to you like this: me and my old lady we slept outside the Presidio Theater in a fucking SLEEPING BAG the night before our movie opened, don't shit your grits, everybody loves a sonofabitch. that's what you and your goddamn Don't Look Back are all about, aren't they? Face it, man, you step on their heads and they love...
...from Sin. One of the earliest efforts was a store-front ministry called the Living Room. It was the joint creation of three Bay Area evangelical ministers, John MacDonald of First Baptist Church in Mill Valley, John Streater of First Baptist in San Francisco, and Edward Plowman of Park Presidio Baptist Church in the city. To communicate with the hip settlers in Haight-Ashbury, the three hired Ted Wise, now 33, a burly Sausalito sailmaker and former drug user who had been converted through MacDonald. Before long, Wise decided that "to bring them back from sin," he first...
...nothing else. Sherill's study is valuable for its fascinating reconstruction of two of the most notorious recent court-martials: the trial of the "Presidio 27." who staged a peaceful protest in a west coast military stockade to protest inhumane prison conditions: and the court-martial of Captain Howard Levy, the Army doctor who was sent to prison for refusing to train Green Beret medical corpsmen...
...real reasons behind the Presidio and Levy court-martials had to do with discipline and politics. Discipline is what the Service wants more than anything else from its men, and independent political thought is one of the gravest conceivable dangers to discipline. Not surprisingly, the Army gets paranoid as soon as a serviceman's politics drift left of far right. Levy, for instance, combined his questioning of the war effort with civil rights work in Mississippi. The Pesidio defendants had the bad luck of sitting in two days after a major west coast anti-war protest in October. 1968. Imagining...