Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though his interests might well cancel each other out, Lance put himself in a questionable spotlight when he spoke out on interest rates...
Twice, Civil Rights Lawyer William Kunstler and Activist Comedian Dick Gregory spoke to protest rallies. In May 200 demonstrators staged a campus march, and some of them pitched tents on the famous hill. They vowed to stay until the bulldozers pushed them out. So far the university's trustees have reject ed the protesters' demands to pick another site. At week's end retiring President Glenn Olds ordered the eviction of the 50 to 100 tent dwellers, many of whom are not students. They planned to resist...
...every level of his art. Motherwell's. manifest obsession with the Spanish Civil War, which began with The Little Spanish Prison, 1941-44, and continued through the famous series of Spanish Elegies, with their black tragic shapes on a white ground. is essentially a cultural matter. He spoke little Spanish, had no firsthand knowledge of Spain, but had been ravished by Lorca's poetry. Barbaric in closeup...
...children you saw and spoke with...
...away in space and time yet, as she speaks, it is all vivid. Luscomb recalls the struggles of the early women's movement with compassion and sometimes with humor. There was, for example, a time in the summer of 1909 when Luscomb was stumping for the suffrage and spoke at a small town near Haverell, Mass. It was an evening meeting in a town hall and, after the speaker had finished, a basket filled with yellow "Votes for Women" buttons was passed around the room. They cost one cent but the audience was gently reminded, "We wouldn't refuse more...