Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there was spawned Students and Youth for a People's Peace. It is increasingly unclear what Students and Youth for a People's Peace does, except to sign the bottom of Mayday notices. The Mayday Tribe, which seems to be the "action-arm" of the SYPP, is planning to shut down Washington for all or part of May 4-7. Local Mayday Tribes will be responsible for specific targets, and will decide their own strategy. Some will fight the police, others will leave when confronted with the prospect of arrest. The major strategy seems to center around the highway system...
Brown is 0-2 so far this season. They were shut out by Navy, 9-0, and lost to Penn...
...heat is wood planking stripped from the few island structures that have not been destroyed by accidental fires. Most of the toilet plumbing, utilizing sea water, is rusted or jammed and sanitation standards are perilously low. The volunteer nurse has left the island, and the only school has been shut (nearly half of the inhabitants are children under the age of twelve). The island's single truck has broken down...
Aesthetics or Polemics? At this point a split became apparent among the black artists themselves. While the B.E.C.C. was protesting that the organization of the show was not black enough, some of the best-known black artists in the U.S. began to resent the prospect of being shut in a purely black context, as if they were anthropological specimens. They pulled out. Among them were Richard Hunt, Mel Edwards, Daniel Johnson, William Williams, Joe Overstreet and Sam Gilliam. Says Johnson, who happens to be an abstractionist: "From the outset of the show, we felt it was going to be disastrous...
However, at the same time, a few cases snapped that umbrella shut again-under specific circumstances. One involved sales to minors. In Ginsberg v. New York, the court held that states may make it a crime to sell "to minors under 17 years of age material defined to be obscene to them whether or not it would be obscene to adults." The court's reasoning was that "the well-being of its children is a subject within the state's constitutional power to regulate." And Ginzburg v. United States makes it possible to prosecute publishers for "pandering...