Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York Congressman Leo Zeferetti called for the immediate deportation of the Iranians who had dangled a 140-ft. banner from the Statue of Liberty demanding: THE SHAH MUST BE TRIED AND PUNISHED. After wrapping up his report last Thursday night, Cleveland Sportscaster Gibb Shanley set fire to a small Iranian flag. "I know it's not sports," he explained to his television audience, "but it is an Iranian flag. Anybody from Iran in this country who does not like it here should leave." Station WEWS-TV received 600 calls about Shanley's symbolic gesture, only 15 of them...
...Beverly Hills incident, the Iranians defiantly carried out a protest march, even though the police had received 25 threats from residents to shoot the protesters as soon as they crossed the city line. On the University of Southern Illinois campus in Carbondale, 1,000 students surrounded a small group of Iranians and virtually held them captive until police moved in. But the patience of some police is wearing thin. Assigned to guard a group of Iranian demonstrators outside the hospital where the Shah is staying, a New York City cop muttered, "Just let one of those bastards open his goddam...
Speaking of a small eastern Kentucky town, Nunn scoffed: "I know where Johnson's Fork is. My opponent probably thinks it's something you eat caviar with...
Walking through the area, reported TIME Correspondent Christopher Ogden, "Mrs. Carter stopped first in a patched blue-and-white plastic tent full of small children, who were lined up sitting on straw mats in three neat rows. They were 'unaccompanied minors,' the official euphemism for orphans, and they were eerily silent, showing neither tears nor smiles. The First Lady bent over and whispered to a girl of about six, but the child stared back uncomprehendingly. When she left the tent, waving, only one child responded with the traditional Indochinese Wai greeting, which involves holding the hands together...
...world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one." I'm sure that a very small classroom would contain all the people at Harvard who share Ruskin's opinion, but without such a conception art is not worth bothering with. I met very few people at Harvard who really cared about art, who sought it out as a first-hand experience rather than accepting passively what...