Word: reading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protester read aloud a letter from a woman who said she had been misled by the Daybreak Center. '"They used psychological pressure to try to persuade me that if I were pregnant--which I was--I should not have an abortion,'" read the letter...
...added that the society's reading did not contain Chapter 14 of the novel, which he said is considered the most offensive. "It was a sufficient statement to read the book," Segal said, adding that the group wanted to make a symbolic statement rather than cause offense...
...fall of a colleague." Nor, contrary to popular opinion, do journalists such as Gorey. "No one finds joy in the misfortune of politicians. Members of Congress are pretty much like the rest of us," he says, "but less fortunate in one respect. Most of us are not compelled to read about our indiscretions on the front page or hear them recited on the nightly news...
...first days after the Ayatullah's shocking death threat, governments and the general public alike in the U.S. and Western Europe were slow to react. Who could believe that a book that practically nobody had read -- and an often obscure if sometimes brilliant one, at that -- was the catalyst precipitating a bizarre international crisis...
...Wednesday some 200 members of the National Writers Union demonstrated in front of the Iranian mission to the United Nations. And in New York City's SoHo district, 21 American writers, including Norman Mailer, Susan Sontag and Joan Didion, met to exchange brave words and read passages from the Rushdie novel. Christopher Hitchens, a columnist for the Nation, received the loudest response when he said, "Until the threat of murder by contract is lifted, all authors should declare themselves as coconspirators. It is time for all of us to don the yellow star and end the hateful isolation...