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...1880s, the Fenian movement boldly bombed the House of Commons. In 1903 the Irish waged another bombing campaign, and again, in 1939, they went on a 15-month spree of dynamiting elegant shops, theaters, mailboxes and railway cloakrooms. Joseph Conrad's protagonist in The Secret Agent schemed to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, just as the hero of a novel recently published in London, The Patriot Game, plans to blast the headquarters of the British secret service...
...must appreciate that we were under military dictatorship for ten to twelve years. The British did give us their own cockeyed system of parliamentary democracy, but with the military dictatorship, people lost that sense of participation, and decisions were taken without consultation and accountability. The military went on a spree [in East Pakistan] that they couldn't control. If they had given that operation political and economic direction, it would have been settled...
Harvard's frosh icemen went on an 11 goal scoring spree last night in Watson Rink and convincingly beat a visiting Swedish team...
...minutes of play in the second half, taking a 49-30 advantage behind the play of guard Jean Wilkinson. The senior guard triggered the fastbreak and hit a couple of long jumpers, scoring a total of eight points during the scoring a total of eight points during the scoring spree...
During the '60s, Cassady caromed naturally from the Beat Generation into the acid culture. He joined Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters and was last seen heading into Mexico, where in 1968 he dropped dead next to a railroad track after a spree fueled by a fatal blend of drugs and alcohol. Thus ended Kerouac's final vision: he and his friend Cassady growing old together, living with their families on the same street in some quiet backwater. Very touching, and very American. James Fenimore Cooper fantasies the last Mohicans, Kerouac dreams up Neal Cassady as the last...