Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said he learned about the protest when he received a flier Tuesday night, announcing the demonstration at Widener...
...music market where size is everything and obscurity means irrelevance, Arlo Guthrie--as one would expect from a subversive, pot-smoking smart-ass--breaks the rule. Nobody listens to protest folk anymore and if anyone does, it's for the kick of nostalgia rather than ideology. Arlo Guthrie is, indeed, obscure now: a figure more of recent history than of present radio play. But he knows it. He knows it, he reacts to it, and he second-guesses the embarrassment that might come from being long past one's prime. He mocks his own obscurity with a comedic sense sharper...
...everybody reads Ulysses on Bloomsday, Thanksgiving is a holiday in need of some tradition that the culture industry can market. Why not Arlo Guthrie? The war in Vietnam may well be long past, but we're all getting older. With the same wit he used so well in civic protest, Guthrie demonstrates how to fade into obscurity while inviting no pity. If you missed him this year--and if you want to get old without getting stupid--mark next year's calendar...
Harvard Dining Services will serve chicken parmesan for dinner tonight in response to yesterday's staged protest by approximately 15 members of the Fox final club...
...club members had been organizing the protest and collecting signatures for a petition since Tuesday, according to a Fox club junior who asked to remain anonymous...