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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstrations of the '70s are likely to rival the occupation of the site of the proposed Seabrook, N.H. nuclear power plant last weekend for sheer media appeal. Some 800 journalists obtained press passes for the occupation, but much of the national media was not present Sunday when New Hampshire state police began arresting the 1400-plus demonstrators (including about ten Harvard-affiliated participants) on criminal trespassing charges...
...CLAMSHELL ALLIANCE, an organization opposed to the use of nuclear power, deserves high praise for its role in sponsoring and coordinating last weekend's occupation of the site of the proposed Seabrook, N.H. nuclear power plant. The incident-free demonstration provided an exemplary display of civil disobedience, as both the occupation and the march to the site remained orderly throughout the weekend. On the negative side however, the Seabrook protest underscored many of the problems encountered by involved citizens who attempt to express a specific grievance these days: excessive bureaucratic red tape that must be waded through to stage...
...date was April 26, 1937, the place Guernica, spiritual home of the Basques and Basque nationalism, site of a revered oak tree under whose branches Basques had elected their representatives since the Middle Ages. The Spanish Civil War was in its ninth month, and troops of the provisional Basque government were fighting alongside Republican forces against Francisco Franco's Nationalists. The fragile front was about 15 miles from Guernica, a target of at best limited military value...
Pulsating With Light. Noland in the '60s was undeniably an accomplished colorist. In the best of his target paintings, like Virginia Site, 1959, he could set a splashy white rim whirling around concentric circles of black, yellow and blue with an airy energy that few American painters (and no European ones at the time) could equal. Like gigantic watercolors-which in effect they are-Noland's targets and chevrons bloom and pulsate with light. They offer a pure, uncluttered hedonism to the eye. But that is all they do offer. The more recent work, the plaid paintings...
Construction of a new Biochemistry lab triggered the search for new Gen Ed offices, and the South House residence at 103 Walker Street was considered as a site until student protest mounted against the proposal...