Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pollsters reported in with ever brighter portents for the G.O.P., Lindsay suddenly became quite vocal. Visiting Washington for a meeting of the President's Commission on Civil Disorders, of which he is vice chairman, Republican Lindsay agreed to sit down with reporters from several newspapers for a "backgrounding" session...
...Washington rules on a "backgrounder," reporters may report what was said without direct attribution to the public official who said it. Stretching the rule just a bit, reporters at the Lindsay session filed stories detailing his views and crediting their information to the mayor's "political friends." When the stories appeared, Lindsay said testily that there was "no basis" for them. He added: "When I have something to say on this, I will talk for myself...
...grade at Pacific Heights' exclusive Urban School on a $1,200 scholarship procured by the Rebels. Required reading for Garcie's social studies course, which deals with "the American Dream," is James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time, and Garcie remarked with a grin after one session: "You're lucky I didn't lead a revolution right here...
...confession need always be made in the presence of a priest. Although there are obvious dangers involved, at least a few speculative thinkers have proposed that Christians might be allowed to gather in penitential services to confess their errors to one another in the manner of a group-therapy session, or perhaps have the option of confessing to trained lay counselors as well as clerics...
...evening session convened at about 8 p.m., after an informal dinner filled with talk of pot, free love, and the radicalization of American society. "The discussion floundered for about 20 minutes," recalls one student participant, "before Cohen opened...