Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...melodrama sounded like an excerpt from one of Tennessee Wiliams' own plays. "I am in a net of con men," read the hastily scrawled letter the playwright had written to his brother Dakin. "If anything of a violent nature happens to me, it will not be a case of suicide, as it would be made to appear." That sounded ominous, and everybody grew more worried when Williams disappeared from his Manhattan apartment. Reporters finally located him last week at his house in Key West, refusing to talk about anything. "He must have had a bad scare," judged Dakin. Tennessee...
...trumpeters, oboists, French horn and trombone players scattered throughout the church sounded a hauntingly dissonant hymn by Danish Composer Per Norgard worthy of John Cage. Seated together with Sweden's octogenarian King Gustaf VI Adolf, was another secular guest, Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda. The prayer was read by Tanzanian Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Josiah Kibira, resplendent in a stole whose tribal designs stood in dramatic contrast with its white silk background. The program for the 16-day conference included everything from Bible study to some readings from Bertolt Brecht's play St. Joan of the Stockyards...
...bodyguard of Scotland Yard plainclothesmen flanked him during a six-minute appearance in the witness box at London's Bow Street Magistrates' Court. Then Barrister David Calcutt, acting for the U.S., presented circumstantial evidence against the man whom U.S. authorities identified as Ray. For 90 minutes, Calcutt read into the record depositions and affidavits pointing to him as the rifleman who pulled the trigger in a second-floor bathroom of a shabby Memphis rooming house to kill King...
...guilty either of grave oversight or willful neglect in regard to Richard Nixon," read the stern letter to the editor of the New York Times. Its author, David Eisenhower II, 20, Ike's grandson, was in the thick of his new job as chairman of the Youth for Nixon organization. David and Julie Nixon, 19, are so optimistic about her dad's chances that they may move up the date of their marriage, originally planned for after their college graduations in 1970, to "sometime after the election." That could make it a White House wedding...
Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism is a kind of historical guide and handbook for the gentleman rebel -Emerson-cum-Marx rather than Rap Brown-cum-Mao. "I am less interested in 18th century radicalism than in 20th century radicalism," Lynd admits, and at times he makes American history read like one long protest march in which Jefferson, Thoreau and Staughton Lynd are fraternity brothers linked arm in arm. Lynd writes as a scholar as well as a proselyter, and his slim volume valuably documents the American tradition of dissent. But it must be read with the proper skepticism...