Word: rend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Civil Rights Movement should now make the cost-benefit analysis of riot, before it embarks on a campaign which will irrepairably rend the fabric of American life along racial lines. The possible benefits which riots produce for the Movement are the following...
...APCs grind to a halt; there is a rumble from the rear; and volley after volley of 105-mm. shells whispers overhead to crash down among the enemy in an endless, earthshaking, invisible whiplash of steel. Then the U.S. warplanes arrive, diving just ahead of the APCs to rend the forest with their 20-mm. cannon and 2.75 rockets. The APCs move forward into the smoke, are stopped again by a pocket of fire. The U.S. commander barks into his radio. In response, five miles away a battery of huge 175-mm. guns elevates slowly, and systematically begins to destroy...
Three Harvard students, Todd Boll '68, David Chesire, and William C. Mullen '67, will rend from their own poetry, and David Ansen '67 will read an original short story tonight at 7 p.m. in the Leverett House Old Library. This is part of "Harvard College Originals," a preliminary event in the Leverett House Festival of the Arts...
Bombast & Scorn. The whole idea was enough to drive Governor George Wallace into paroxysms of rage. He tried appealing for a stay of Judge Johnson's decision, but was turned down flat. He went before the Alabama legislature to rend the air with 20 minutes of bombast; the proposed march, he declared, was Communist-inspired, abetted by a "collectivist press," by "propagandists masquerading as newsmen." He delivered himself of a withering blast against his old Alabama University friend, Judge Johnson, calling him a man who is "hypocritically wearing the robes" of a judge while "presiding over a mock court...
Margaret Phillips appears to be awfully young for a queen with a 30-year-old prince as a son. The famous Closet Scene that they play together ought to rend the heart, but fails to; Sawyer must share the blame here. The Ghost (David Byrd) quite correctly makes a visible appearance in the scene; for, however mad Hamlet may be elsewhere, the Ghost is not a figment of Hamlet's imagination. The Ghost's entrances and exits are well handled in all three of his scenes, but his speech is too fast and impassioned, and lacks dignity...