Word: tumult
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...KING is a stark play about death, rich in poetry and insight. Unfortunately, as interpreted by members of the APA, King has too much of a whine and too little command to involve the audience in lonesco's tragic vision or in his character's emotional tumult...
...justice." By wintertime, when it appeared certain that his department would not get anything like the money he thought it needed, Gardner seemed convinced that neither the President nor the nation had the will to respond. "No society," he said at year's end, "can live in constant tumult. We will have either a civil order in which discipline is internalized in the breast of each free and responsible citizen or, sooner or later, we will have repressive measures designed to re-establish order...
There was tumult on Capitol Hill as Powell's supporters conducted a demonstration on the House steps...
Searching for a trigger for a new tumult, activists lit on U.S. Navy recruiters manning tables inside the Berkeley student union. A nonstudent, anti-Viet Nam, anticonscription group called the Draft Information Committee set up a table next to the Navy recruiters. Campus police ordered it removed. A crowd appeared, including Savio and Communist Student Bettina Aptheker. A fist fight broke out between two students, which drew more spectators. Some set up picket lines around the Navy table, then sprawled on the floor when police said picketing inside was illegal...
...truce-and hopes for racial peace in Chicago-by marching into whites-only Cicero (TIME, Sept. 2) as King had planned to do before Chicago leaders met his demands. Some members voiced hopes for violence that would tarnish King's philosophy of nonviolence. In anticipation of "the tumult, riot or mob disorder" that might result from the march. Governor Otto Kerner at week's end activated some 2,000 National Guardsmen for duty in Cicero...