Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Live!" The legislature's capital-punishment hearing took place against the stir and clamor of mounting agitation to save Chessman from the "green room," as Death Row inmates call it. An auto caravan pulled into Sacramento bringing 384 University of California faculty signatures on a petition urging abolition of capital punishment. A rodeo rider, billed as a "minuteman," drove his tired horse from San Francisco to Sacramento, picking up save-Chessman signatures along the way. An unemployed schoolteacher named Norbert Nicholas was in the fourth day of a save-Chessman hunger strike in Sacramento. At the capitol building...
Symbolic Cause. A score of condemned men besides Caryl Chessman await execution on San Quentin's Death Row, and another 140 or so in other Death Rows in the U.S. alone. But none of the others stir international telephone calls, hunger strikes, petitions and jukebox recordings. Why Chessman...
...virtues of the Phoenix Theater's lively production is that, as staged by Stuart Vaughan, it keeps a happy balance, values its martial clang and stir, sets broadsword heroics against tankard humor, and is never for a moment a one-man show. But it is no less a virtue of the current production that Eric Berry's robustly nimble and resourceful Falstaff is by all odds the play's best-acted role. Donald Madden's Hotspur is properly dynamic too, though it substitutes mere energy for fire and dash. As Henry, Fritz Weaver makes a well...
Such a directive was bound to stir a storm of protest. It did. One outraged parent sent State Tax Commission President Joseph H. Murphy 2?. Others complained that it is hard enough to teach teen-agers the merits of earning their own way, let alone have them subjected to the discouragement of tax collection on every penny. Warned the New York Times, only half humorously: If tax officials persist, they "may find that they are fostering juvenile delinquency, cutting car production, plunging parents into the captivity of their progeny...
Doing a six-month stretch in Tennessee's Davidson County workhouse on an inciting-to-riot rap, Yankee Segregationist John Kasper, 30, fresh from a five-month respite in federal stir for contempt of court, was contemptuous of his treatment by the feds, laudatory of his local jailors. Observed he: "You know exactly what is expected of you at the workhouse. You eat, sleep and work, and that's about all of it. The federal system has too many bureaucrats. I always had the unexplained sense of great eyes watching me. And they go in for psychological brainwashing...