Word: vigils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a trumped-up consensus which conceals real inequality and conflict. One way to repudiate this attempt at a false consensus is through demonstrations, like the one the People's Bicentennial Commission has called for this Friday night. The Commission's plan for a midnight-to-draw vigil at Concord was unnecessarily theatrical, and its planners' emphasis on vogue phrases about "economic independence," or sending "Wall Street" an unspecified "message," isn't much help either. The revolutionaries whose language the Commission takes over wholesale weren't just stealing phrases--they were reacting to their time's problems and responding...
There is even a touch of protest in today's events--the people's Bicentennial Commission, which says it wants to reclaim America from Wall Street, will be holding an all-night vigil in Concord while its parade permit lasts, in a celebration designed to call forth the harsh, indominable revolutionary spirit...
...about 70 auto workers, teachers, small businessmen and housewives. They recruited ten new believers and expanded the church parking lot to handle the overflow crowds they expect when Gill returns. Since last August, especially devout members have been honored by appointment to a corps that keeps a prayer vigil in the church 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to await Gill's resurrection...
Though he rarely strays far from the net, and does not have the flashy moves of a high-scoring center, it is the goalie in his lonely vigil who embodies the savage, bruising and ultimately mesmerizing nature of his sport. He is an imposing knight in polyurethane padding as he crouches before the goal, ready to strike out in any direction with glove, skates or oversized stick. But behind his ghostly synthetic face, he is still vulnerable. No padding or mask that leaves him free to move can fully shield him from the potentially lethal blow of a slap shot...
...only incident resembling a demonstration during Ford's two-week stay was a one-man protest vigil staged by Ruffin Harris of Carbondale, Colo. He stood in front of Millionaire Richard Bass's palace where Ford was staying. Harris held a live wolf on a leash to protest Ford's Christmas gift of a wolfskin coat to his wife...