Word: seabrooks
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...Rather, I mean the sort of comedy that points down, from an affected stance of intellectual or cultural superiority, lacking any sort of humanism or fellow feeling, without any hint that the Lampoon itself, and its members, might be just as amenable to satiric deflation as, say, protesters at Seabrook. I mean a comedy that picks the facile targets, the obvious cretins, the people its easy to be supercilious to. I mean a comedy that intimidates, that plays upon the massive insecurities of a Harvard audience, the palpable need to belong; laughter transmogrified from an expression...
...battle of Seabrook, lost on one tactical front, may have been won on another...
...People are going to watch those cops and they're going to get a real good idea of what went on--it can't help but get us sympathy," one protester said as she left Seabrook Monday...
Many of those worries seem to have been quieted, though, despite a noticeable lack of support from movement celebrities. Demonstrators stayed steadfastly nonviolent, and the police response shocked many of the original opponents of the action. Several members of the Coalition for Non-Violence at Seabrook, originally set up to oppose the occupiers tactics, carried their sleeping bags to the demonstrators' camp Saturday night after watching the evening news...
...affinity groups" announced they would stay the winter in Seabrook, harassing authorities with repeated forays against the fence...