Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bernard Baruch, the adviser to Presidents, gave counsel from his seat on a park bench. Harry Truman liked to walk there. In recent years the park has been a rallying ground for demonstrators, and sometimes tear gas wafted through the tall elms...
...rented. We got over Widener and the fuel line was blocked. The damn fool told me he knew something about flying. We nearly took off the top of the electric plant--where Eliot House is now. We barely got down alive, and then the Harvard football team tried to tear the plane to pieces for souvenirs...
Given the chance to tear down some musty old theater and to design a glass-walled new "culture center," most architects would rejoice and turn to their drawing boards. Not Chicago's Harry Weese. Though he is one of the nation's most talented architects, he goes out of his way to preserve landmark buildings. "We do it because it has to be done," he explains. "Fine old buildings give our cities character and continuity. They give us a sense of stability...
...bombing continues, however, the eerie quiet will be shattered. Eventually, the voices of the screaming children will be heard in Harvard Yard. Protest will slowly mount again, first in the form of picket lines and peaceful demonstrations, then, if the killing continues, the tear-gas and the riot-equipped police and the rocks sailing lazily into the plate glass windows will return to the Square. It may take a long time, but the criminality in Indochina will again be answered in the streets at home...
...radicals, of course, were always more strenuous in their opposition to the war, but their participation in trashing demonstrations one day did not make it impossible for them to bail out of jail wash off the tear gas, and join a peaceful rally the next. The antiwar movement was always characterized by several levels of participation: liberal students headed for law school could avoid a career-crippling arrest by steering clear of militant demonstrations and still contribute meaningfully to ending the war by joining the peaceful waves of people who clogged the streets in quiet and orderly marches...