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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...renew her contract because she is a member of the party. Public opinion polls in California at the time indicated that a majority of citizens felt the state universities should not allow Communists to teach. It was this anti-communist emotionalism and the fears of the metaphorical rhetoric--"Smash the State," "...We rejoice when the pigs' blood is spilled"--contained in her letters that the government hoped would help clinch the case against Davis...

Author: By Jeff Leonard, | Title: A Revolutionary's Self-Portrait | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

...discussion of the racism in Birth of a Nation--the demonstration's goal--has been temporarily placed aside. A viewing of the movie could only have encouraged it. There was no danger presented by the audience--no one was about to rush out at the film's conclusion to smash school bus windows with ax handles. Instead of analysis, there was a miscalculated victory chant for the demonstrators, and bitterness for those who had come to see the movie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Censorship | 10/10/1974 | See Source »

...streets of the Latino section of Manhattan's Upper West Side, where a fat kid named Freddie Prinze lived for most of his 20 short years. Nowadays Freddie works another barrio. As the wisecracking Chicano hustler in the decrepit East Los Angeles garage in NBC's smash new series Chico and the Man, Prinze is the hottest new property on prime-time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Prinze of Prime Time | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

...Kenmore cabal scored in the fourth inning, after Dwight Evans walked and Deron Johnson broke up a no-hitter with a looper to right. Rick Burleson plated Evans with a smash single off the wall, to make it 4-1. In the top half of the frame, Powell's home run had given the Birds a 4-0 bulge...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Darned Sox Are Out to Dry After 7-2 Birdbath | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

Although the Red Sox threatened to peck away at the Birds' lead to win, Cuellar was content with men on base and received superb defensive support with two stellar plays by shortstop Mark Belanger. Belanger saved one run with a stunning aerial stab of a Terry Hughes smash, to end the sixth inning and leave Burleson on second base...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Darned Sox Are Out to Dry After 7-2 Birdbath | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

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