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Word: reads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Loudspeakers had been set up on the roots of both the CIS and the administration building yesterday, and the text of the court injunction obtained against the demonstrators Monday morning was read from both places...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: 1000 Protestors at M.I.T. Ask End to War Research | 11/5/1969 | See Source »

Instead, demonstrators-who called the CIS closure a victory-read an indictment of the Center from the "People's Revolutionary Grand Jury and Tribunal...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: 1000 Protestors at M.I.T. Ask End to War Research | 11/5/1969 | See Source »

...demonstrations against the I-Labs cannot turn out to be anything but an attack on the workers there." an SDS leaflet read. "We completely dissociate ourselves from the November Action Coalition and especially from the Weathermen faction within...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: 1000 Protestors at M.I.T. Ask End to War Research | 11/5/1969 | See Source »

...commendable attempt to re-establish the genre along its old classical lines. As with any decent parody, Bored operates on the assumption that anyone who might be frivolous enough to spend a buck on anything that bears the Lampoon's moniker must have already been foolish enough to read through all of J.R.R. Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. So. it is only fitting and just, that Bored tells the mythopoetic fable of one Frito Bugger, an odious little Boggie. who accompanies the wizardly Goodgulf on a haphazard junket across Lower Middle Earth. Their mission: to dispose...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Put-ons Bored of the Rings | 11/4/1969 | See Source »

WHICH MIGHT all be very fine, if one didn't also have to read the damn thing. For when epics grow out of the Oral Stage, they lose something of their amiability. Bored has a distressing habit of repeating again and again the perverse patterns on which its humor depends. Every paragraph is sure to mention at least one refugee from a Medieval Bestiary, along with two unrelated brand names...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Put-ons Bored of the Rings | 11/4/1969 | See Source »

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