Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What do they want?" demanded a perplexed Michigan housewife. "Why don't they stop...
...statement calling on Negroes "voluntarily to observe a broad curtailment, if not total moratorium, of all mass marches, mass picketing and mass demonstrations until after Election Day, next Nov. 3." The reason was plain enough: the leaders figured that by calling a halt to Negro militancy, they might stop the growth of the white backlash vote for Barry Goldwater in November. The Negroes' energy, they said, should be aimed at getting voters to register. Lyndon Johnson lost no time joining their cause, backed a policy of "registration in lieu of demonstration...
...week five U.S. servicemen and 15 Vietnamese were wounded when a bomb was heaved into Saigon's Shadows Bar while the dance floor was crowded with rhumba dancers. The day before, a man on a motorcycle tossed a grenade at six American advisers standing at a Saigon bus stop, missing them but injuring four Vietnamese shoppers...
...Goma, in rebellion-torn Kivu Central province, Congolese literally hung from the trees to hear Tshombe speak. "Black blood has been flowing like wild animals," he told them. "I say to you: Kazi, kazi [work, work], and let the politicians do the talking. The important thing is to stop the rebellion. Bullets are flying like falling hair...
...Loeb they chant ominously through the Vermeule translations so beloved to Gen Ed and, occasionally, when they forget they are in a ritual drama and stop trying to sound like an unearthly shaman or the Delphic priestess, their speech becomes intelligible, and they show us "just how modern the old bard really was." At least I think their interpretation follows certain simple but "classic" lines: Euripides mocks the old religious motifs that Aeschylus so deeply felt, ergo he was an atheist rebelling against the pious establishment. The Loeb production seems to follow this interpretation or, shall I say, to adopt...