Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Savoring the full careless rapture of having no parents ("Do we get any money for being orphans?" asks the boy hopefully), the children go for a make believe bus ride. The conductor looks suspiciously like Papa, and a back-seat passenger like Mama. Delicately, Wilder suggests each child's need to love the thing he kills, especially parents. The wayward bus ride has its own hazards-jaywalkers, Indians, floods-and it gives Wilder a chance for a stalwart reflection on the business of living: "Fight. Struggle. Survive...
Miss Keith didn't completely squelch the proposal, however. Since it is so far into reading period already, and since most people don't really care enough to fight about the issue right now, she said that in Briggs Hall the matter would ride until spring. "I'm not about to shove that petition around now," she stated...
...predominantly white office building in Atlanta, where he puts up with segregated toilets and restaurants; in contrast. Snick's Atlanta headquarters is a windowless cubicle in an all-Negro district. King began to lose status with young Negroes last May when he failed to take a Freedom Ride into Mississippi. He lost even more last month at a civil rights demonstration in Albany, Ga., when he was taken off to jail vowing that he would stay behind bars indefinitely, then meekly posted bond and went home two days later...
CORE & Crackpots. Adding to the dissidence is the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), primarily a Northern organization of whites and Negroes that makes only occasional forays into the South under the leadership of James Farmer. It organized the first Freedom Ride from Washington to New Orleans, but withdrew after mob violence in Birmingham and let Snick's dedicated campaigners ride on to Jackson, Miss. The group suffers fragmented leadership and a membership described by an N.A.A.C.P. leader as "a bunch of loonybirds and crackpots...
...past, the Crimson seemed to be unduly fazed by the Hanover locale. The long, bumpy bus ride, and the rabid fans breathing hotly down their necks apparently unnerved the Crimson players...