Word: waked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wake of the antiwar demonstrations that brought out some 200,000 protesters in San Francisco and New York (TIME, April 21), patriots of every stripe last week demanded legislation to penalize desecrators of the American flag. In New York, where at least one flag was burned in the Central Park Sheep Meadow by overardent symbolists, city police scrutinized thousands of photographs in search of identifiable flag razers, each of whom, if convicted, would have to pay a $50 state fine for touching off Old Glory. In Washington, South Carolina's Democratic Representative L. Mendel Rivers introduced a bill that...
...Yacht Club, was never a contest. Racing on Lake Carnegie under cloudy skies, with winds gusting to 25 knots, the Cliffie sailors took five first places, scoring 53 points. Wellesley was second with 46 points, and Mount Holyoke third with 44. The four other sisters were left watching the wake...
...SHORTER FINNEGANS WAKE, by James Joyce, edited by Anthony Burgess. Novelist Burgess (A Clockwork Orange) has pulled Joyce's astronomical Dublin masterpiece into the general reader's field of vision simply by cutting out two-thirds of it. There is still plenty of wit and wordplay left...
...Webb, the drive to explore space is "a high point in all mankind's vision." In the wake of the Apollo tragedy, he conceded that the venture is a dangerous one, but added that "either the country is going to take the risk and get on as we did in Mercury and Gemini, or we will not have a manned-space-flight program." U.S. policymakers have already made their choice. Though the tragedy at Cape Kennedy has set back the first manned Apollo flight by a year, they are still committed to sending men to the moon...
McLUHAN believes that Joyce, because he was an artist, understood the importance of media, and he regards Finnegans Wake as a textbook for the electronic...