Word: sixteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chuck Berry was so much the Jimi Hendrix rolled-into-Mick-Jagger of his times in the sense of being a demonaic force, tinged with evil and unabashed about it. When he sings "Sweet Little Sixteen," about the girl with the 'woman blues" who loves to wear "tight dresses and lipstick, high heel shoes" but then must "change and go to school," the thought that he was jailed for years for statutory rape (Rage that he was sent to jail, delight that he knows what he's singing about...
...geographical distribution of Radcliffe admissions is skewed in a similarly dramatic way. A tabulation of home addresses in the 1969 Radcliffe Register revealed that eleven states--mainly in the South and Middle West--were not represented at all and sixteen more had managed to send only one girl to Cambridge. The 'Cliffe's Eastern, urban provincialism is further reflected in that half of the class of '69 comes from three states: Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York...
There is no trace of swagger in Cozza's voice, only the solemn selfassurance resulting from sixteen consecutive victories spanning almost two complete seasons...
...Sixteen Harvard and Brandeis SDS members and 25 welfare mothers arrested Thursday in a demonstration at Boston State House were charged yesterday with conspiracy to obstruct the orderly transaction of state business and with trespassing. If convicted, they face one-year imprisonment...
...Sixteen. Something like that...