Word: vigil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down and cranked out a 60-page magazine piece that spotlighted the participants in Atlanta's trauma as "characters in a national drama" and which "tried to tell you what the people are really like." The product of a solid month of research, "Oney's piece recounted the vigil of a Black family with a missing child; of the family's last-ditch hope that hiring private detectives to scour Atlanta would help; and of the "absolutely surreal" atmosphere that took hold of the city in early spring and did not let go until the indictment of a suspect this...
...spraying was all but imperceptible, a fact that frustrated would-be demonstrators. Two protesters keeping a vigil in Palo Alto heard a helicopter overhead but could find no trace of Malathion. "I don't see how it will work," admitted Patrick Long, 29, who held a black umbrella over his head for symbolic effect. "I don't see how the flies can find...
Pickets, undaunted by blistering heat, shuffle outside city hall with pithy placards. One reads: IF I HEAR THE MAYOR SAY THIS IS THE FEMINIST CAPITAL OF THE WORLD AGAIN, I'LL PUKE. Their vigil is evidence that equal pay for comparable work is an issue whose time is about to come. Already a ripple effect is being felt 40 miles north. A San Francisco official last week called for a study to see if that city is paying its employees equitably...
...blue-uniformed police. There, for 30 minutes or so, the women walk in a large circle. There is no sound but their footsteps. Occasionally, the women may try to present a petition at the government building; almost always they are rebuffed. Then they disperse, returning to take up their vigil the following week...
This radicalized view of society led John to participate in a variety of political activities off and on campus. He helped organize a Harvard human rights group, and became involved in peace work. "I did a 72-hour vigil and fast with Mobilization for Survival at Faneuil Hall, and that was an introduction to a tradition of opposition to nuclear weapons. That really led me in another direction." The intensity of his involvement also introduced him to "burnout" by the middle of his sophomore year. "I started realizing that from seven in the morning until one the next morning...