Word: wade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Professional Collapse. Even so, the program was relatively understated, in tone and in the rhetoric of the policemen telling their version of the story. Here and there, the Daley show attempted to present both sides of the controversy. University of Chicago Historian Richard Wade was heard arguing that both demonstrators and police were guilty of excesses. Yet most of the footage chosen was shot from behind police lines. Not once did it suggest that dozens of police removed their badges and name tags to prevent identification and then assaulted demonstrators, newsmen and bystanders...
...even when the strike ended, Bell Tel would never be able to wade through the backlog. So we thought...
National Primary? A national primary might be one solution to the contradictions of the present setup. Many students of politics, including University of Chicago Historian Richard Wade, have advocated such a primary. The parties could meet in the spring solely to write their platforms. In September, Democrats, Republicans and independents could hold separate nationwide primary elections, and the winners could meet six weeks later in the national election. Because campaign expenses for such primaries would be prohibitively high, the Federal Government would probably have to make political contributions taxdeductible. An alternative suggested by Louisiana's Senator Russell Long: each...
...reader (participant? player? victim?) who takes the trouble to wade through the latest issue, designed by Brian O'Doherty, should find his senses fully exhausted. There is the script of a "structural play" that diagrams the movements of the performers, who are instructed to costume themselves in "white bodystockings or leotards, with tight-fitting hoods covering the ears and featureless silver masks." There is a do-it-yourself poem in which the author provides the ingredients (adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, gerunds, capitalized words, etc.) and leaves the composition to the reader. There is a recording of percussion instruments with...
...Saying that Updike is not in the mainstream of contemporary American letters is manifestly absurd. Since when is creativity governed by conformity? Updike would not deign to wade in Mailer's muddied mainstream. Updike, in his personal life and his writings, is a lover. Mailer, in both, is a hater...