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Opponents in the studio audience hurled eggs at the stage, and one man took a swing at Wilkinson. Some of the demonstrators chanted "Astans, Latins, black and white, all together we must fight" and unfurled "death to the Klan" signs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KKK Will Demonstrate In Downtown Boston | 10/16/1982 | See Source »

...hounded him for years--Jackson has shown a depth and diversity of musical talent. He has experimented with old forms and concocted new ones. He marked his departure from pure New Wave with products like the reggae-in-spired Beat Crazy and Jumpin' Jive, a collection of '40s-style swing tunes. While bands like The Clash continue to scream and bang their ideas into their music, Jackson has gradually found mellower and musically richer ideas to get his message across...

Author: By Thomas J. Meyer, | Title: Growing Up | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

Once the University-sponsored program gets into full swing, undergraduate secretaries in each House will be responsible for dispatching volunteers to different Cambridge and Boston communities. This year the University will subsidize the program with $2000 from a special discretionary fund at Bok's disposal. It will continue supporting the project for three years, after which time College officials say the program must either become self-supporting or disperse...

Author: By Lavea Brachman, | Title: Running Interference | 10/2/1982 | See Source »

...said that although there are probably fewer students taking time off this year than in the past, she does not "think it's a huge swing either...

Author: By David M. Rosenfeld, | Title: Mem Hall Beckons: Registration Looms For Upperclassmen | 9/20/1982 | See Source »

Thursday. Tried to convince myself that all this darting observation and febrile sensitivity of Woolf's is getting boring. Lost the argument by opening to a page at random. She says of Henry James' prose: "His pounce & grip & swing always spring fresh upon me." Ditto with her. The literary portraits alone are worth the price: Huxley, Rebecca West, old Shaw and Yeats, T.S. Eliot ("hard, spry, a glorified boy scout in shorts & yellow shirt. . . settling in with some severity to being a great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hooked | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

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