Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ARLO GUTHRIE: ARLO (Reprise). In his first album, Alice's Restaurant, Woody Guthrie's boy created a piece of instant Americana: a talking blues that wrapped an antiwar protest inside a hilarious tall tale. A classic is a hard thing to live down, especially for a performer of 21. This amiable but unmemorable release-recorded live at Manhattan's Bitter End cafe -indicates that it may be some time before Guthrie matches Restaurant again. Meantime, his satire may not bite but it nips playfully, and his comic drawl is impeccably timed. The Pause of Mr. Claus begins...
...year-old graduate of the rock group Circus Maximus. The boundaries of Walker's country style are broad enough to take in rock, ballads and the blues. The Ballad of the Hulk, though a little long and repetitive, is an object lesson in how to protest without falling into a dreary drone. His targets include the Vatican, divorce and the draft ("I have but one country to give for my life"). The spirit is so infectious that even squares may applaud the lines: "What's right for me / Would be perversity / In any state lawbook...
Angry Jangles. The clash outside Lucerna Hall was the kind of public protest that has put Party Chief Alexander Dubček under increasing pressures. Those pressures start, of course, with the Russians. Time and again during the recent demonstrations, the hot-line telephone on Dubček's desk jangled with angry calls from Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, who warned that the Russian army was capable of controlling the streets if Dubček was not. Dubček summoned student leaders to his office and sternly warned that the party would not tolerate any more anti...
...reaching the people who need it. By helping to dramatize that fact, the welfare mothers and their supporters were trying to do something which needed to be done. They are not criminals or conspirators as Governor Volpe would like us to believe. A charge of conspiracy for such a protest as this one is absurd and unjust...
While over 80 angered freshmen had attended the HUC meeting to protest the exclusion of freshmen from the parietal changes now before the Committee on Houses, the Alexander report completely overshadowed the rest of the evening's agenda...