Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shoot Martin Luther King," Ray insisted in his statement. Instead of revealing new evidence of a plot to kill King, Ray stuck to his claim that he had been framed by an elusive stranger named Raoul, whom he had met in a Montreal bar after escaping from a prison in Jefferson City, Mo., on April 23, 1967. It was Raoul, Ray insisted, who asked him to buy a telescopic-sighted rifle in Birmingham and a pair of binoculars in Memphis-and it was Raoul who must have left them near the scene of the shooting, well marked with...
Studs Terkel, author of the "oral history" Working: "The most rewarding moment comes when a stranger writes and says, 'I have read Working and now I'll never talk rudely to a waitress again...
...July. Dating back to 1867, Brown's Mill stands in all the interesting stages of decay known to brick, mortar and wood. As MacArthur takes you on the conducted tour, picking his way buoyantly through the rubble, he can manage to see Brown's Mill as a stranger sees it-but not for long. For MacArthur, in this cavernous tomb to New England's vanished woolen industry lie the makings of a Utopian community, or at least a working model of the 1980s. Behind the bleak, randomly broken windows he imagines 92,000 sq. ft. of space...
Even those who had never read Camus became familiar with the chain-smoking figure in a trench coat, fatefully evocative of Bogart and Yves Montand. Much was made of his celebrated statement that in a purposeless world the only vital question was one of suicide. His novels The Stranger and The Fall describe souls out of touch with a moral landscape; The Plague watches townspeople succumb to a literal and spiritual disease. It is small wonder that at his death Camus seemed the spokesman of despairing existentialism, a cinematic figure as doom-ridden as any of his characters...
...John Sparkman to cast the 60th vote if the 59th could be secured. Byrd had acquired a pledge of that vote from Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, who would switch from his pro-filibuster stand if, among other things, the bill were amended to outlaw labor's use of "stranger" pickets, workers from one plant who join picket lines at another. Byrd planned to send the bill back to the Human Resources Committee to add the Long provision...