Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard Epworth concludes the fall's Rossellini series with Socrates, in the middle of which I once fell asleep. But wake up for that hemlock scene...
...development aided by the United States, and urbanization. Uruguay, the site of State of Siege, was a nation with a long history of democracy: the military moved into power there last June. Peru and Bolivia have also been ruled by the new type of general, and Chile in the wake of September's bloody repression of President Allende's government, has fallen under the sway of the gorillas. Venezuela is still technically a democracy, but there have been military rumblings there also...
...many Americans. Perhaps they work too hard, move too fast, or spend too much time indoors to see the earlier sunsets every evening or notice that the air has begun to acquire an edge, like a jug of apple cider left over from early fall. Suddenly they wake up one morning to find sunlight sparkling off the hoarfrost and a silvery net of ice crystals on the puddles in the driveway. It can be a cold shock...
...Anthony Lukas expanded his compassionate description of the Greenwich Village counter-culture into Don't Shoot, We Are Your Children, a book which carefully portrayed the mood of the late sixties without departing into sycophancy or sensationalism. Lukas went to Baltimore for New Times in the wake of Spiro Agnew's resignation--although his brief, three-page report had some interesting background about the flourishing Maryland contracting industry which caused Agnew's downfall, it centered heavily around the proverbial scene at the local...
...demonstration--organized by the Attica Brigade, an anti-imperialist student group--came in the wake of a decision Thursday by the Farah Manufacturing Co. to shut down two more of its plants and lay off 900 workers...