Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This was a setup," Capote believes. The central factor of what happens is that, after the assassination, this assassin rushes out of the rooming house and what does he do? He does a very amazing, unusual thing. He takes a suitcase and very carefully props it up in front of a store. And in this suitcase there is a shotgun, very carefully left. And what is on it is Mr. James Earl Ray's fingerprints...
...President Grayson Kirk, was "the most painful one I have ever made." Although the need for some drastic action to end the impasse was due partly to Kirk's own vacillation in handling the student protests, he had plenty of provocation to call in the police. For one thing, the strike had expanded well beyond its initial aims getting the university to cancel plans for a gymnasium in nearby Morningside Park and drop its affiliation with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a Govern ment-supported research center...
...England descendant of Mayflower pilgrims that he is, he refuses to bid for easy success with the latest fashions. For that reason, he has had to settle for the high esteem of colleagues and critics, and the reputation of a Zeus on a cloud-cloaked Olympus doing his own thing, virtually daring the multitudes to like...
...Newest thing in outdoor knockabouts is an informal hybrid that has yet to gain a name. Stubby, raffish, minimal, it is obviously designed for sport...
Mailer evokes some marvelously mordant closeups of his fellow "weekend revolutionaries" as they try to do their ritualistic protest thing quickly, so that they can get back to New York for a dinner party. "Lowell's shoulders had a slump," writes Mailer. "One did not achieve the languid grandeurs of that slouch in one generation-the grandsons of the first sons had best go through the best troughs in the best eating clubs at Harvard before anyone in the family could try for such elegant note." Ideologue Paul Goodman "looked like the sort of old con who had first...