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...involved with those students [in the Wall Street fighting]. There's not a man among us who is proud of what he did. But we just couldn't stand there and take it any more. They were waving Viet Cong flags. Some of them spit on our flag. It was just a spontaneous reaction on our part. Look, there were a lot of World War II and Korean veterans there. Some 18-year-old punk does that-what does he expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Don't Get Me Wrong | 5/25/1970 | See Source »

...Orton ever visited on anyone in the theater was his untimely death at the age of 34. Orton gleefully beat sacred cows on their way to the last roundup (Entertaining Mr. Shane; TIME, Oct. 22, 1965). He was a black-comedy farceur who could dance on a coffin and spit in the corpse's eye (Loot; TIME, March 29, 1968). It has been said that "a joke is a scream for help." In Orton's mouth, a joke was an urbane substitute for murder. He was a wild Wilde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Laughtime in Bedlam | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

...What happened to all those liberal senators when that racist anal judge Julius Geritol Hoffman spit in the face of the Constitution at our trial?" Abbie Hoffman shouted. "Clean for Gene, George McGovernment, Teddy-with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Haven Panther Rally Avoids Violence 'til Dark | 5/2/1970 | See Source »

Tell me, you there, brother, how much longer do you think you're going to live? You got the black lung! You can't walk ten steps without resting. You can't breathe. You spit up black juice. But the company says you just got compensationitis! You're dying! And the killing will go on until you tell them to grant you compensation and clean up the miners or there won't be any coal coming out of West Virginia...

Author: By Tom Bethell, | Title: Black is the Color | 4/25/1970 | See Source »

...although the debate over the order of events leading to a possible spit is now being given most attention, not everyone in the department is convinced that a split should occur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Debate Delays Split Of Soc Rel | 3/6/1970 | See Source »

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