Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HAMLET. Every Hamlet sheds his blood in the last scene; Nicol Williamson pours his blood into every scene. Williamson's fiery Dane would have led a sit-in at the University of Wittenberg, or burned it to the ground. The rottenness of the state, the corruption of his elders, the brevity of his mother's love, Ophelia's frail readiness to be her father's pawn-all these nauseate him. Yet his antic disposition never leaves him, and a Hamlet has never been presented with so much caustic wit. With this performance, Nicol Williamson has turned...
...Small Bosses. "We don't have any criminals in the North yet," he says. "These are kids. I think of myself as bringing the presence of the law into these places, and I try to sit down and explain to these people whenever possible. What I'm doing is teaching civics." It is not easy. For a start, none of the Eskimo dialects have a precise translation of the words guilty and innocent. Judge comes out as "one who listens" or, more simply, "boss." In the unusual cases when there is also a six-man jury, the arrangement...
Three Thirty Three says to me that Harvard is a place where students sit around a lot worrying about not meeting girls (or not meeting boys), pay no attention to the fascinating variety of people passing through and hanging on in Cambridge, regard Faculty only as performers who at their best can make a lecture seem like a seminar, and neither know nor much care what their fellow students are doing. If all this is true, these are bad times for Harvard, but it still seems to me more probable that these are merely the worst of times...
...students from predominantly black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sat down at a Greensboro lunch counter. Peaceful but determined, the Negroes vowed not to move until they were served - and thereby set the pattern of nonviolent sit-ins that dominated black protest for years. Last week A. & T. students in the tobacco and textile town traded shots with police and National Guards men for three days. The contrast capsuled the revolution in the mode of protest in the U.S. that has taken place...
...blockhouse and has seen to it that the original wooden markers naming local roads and paths after fallen American soldiers were replaced by neat cement bornés bearing the information. In the village's Café du 6 Juin, under crude murals depicting the invasion, the locals sit over their Calvados and chat about the débarquement as if it had happened yesterday...