Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tore up an Oakland peace rally. Four years later came Altamont. Commissioned to protect Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones at a rock concert held at the California speedway, the Angels waded into the crowd with pool cues, leaving an 18-year-old black, Meredith Hunter, dead in their wake. (The Angel who killed him was acquitted on the ground of self-defense.) It all bolstered the legend that the Angels were the toughest, meanest cyclists around...
Vulnerability. The Capitol blast followed the bombing or attempted bombing last year of 32 buildings across the country that are owned or leased by the Federal Government. Well before last week's explosion, security at all federal buildings had already been tightened in the wake of the alleged plot by the Berrigan brothers (TIME, Jan. 25) to kidnap Henry Kissinger and blow up heating ducts in the capital's underground area. The 7.5-mile tunnel system that connects the basements of Government office buildings in Washington has been equipped with an alarm system and most of its manholes...
...delight and consternation of an enthusiastic crowd at Lowell Lecture Hall last Friday night, Cosell vented his fury, lashing out at everyone and everything connected with sport, leaving idols and myths strewn in the wake of his irrepressible verbiage...
...evening of this kind relies on a cultural remembrance of things past. Familiarity breeds content. Nonetheless, it is the singer who glorifies the song. Perhaps Siobhan McKenna's finest moments come in the two greatest Joyce monologues, "Anna Livia Plurabelle," from Finnegans Wake, and Molly Bloom's closing reverie from Ulysses. One is an ode to a river, the other to a woman. In Miss McKenna's delivery, the two are linked in a cascade of sounds and moods-drowsy, restless, tactile, sensuous-that, with a mounting lyrical intensity, evoke the eternal waters of life...
...committee-chaired by Robert W. Austin, professor of Business Administration-was formed by Pusey last April in the wake of debates on whether Harvard should vote its 287,000 shares of General Motors stock against the G. M. management in a "proxy fight" to force the Corporation to be more conscious of its social obligations...