Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wall has long since pulled down the shutters on West Berlin's "show window to the East," robbing the city of its old excitement and sense of purpose. To make matters worse, the West German recession has caused a severe Berlin business slump. On top of all that, Mayor Willy Brandt went to Bonn last December and turned his job over to Heinrich Albertz, a hapless preacher-turned-politician who was unable to rule his own party, let alone the largest (pop. 2,191,000) city in Germany...
...beams a ruby red light into a corner, then unmasks itself mechanically so that the dot of light draws itself around the room into a full square. Then the line undraws itself back into a red dot. In another room, a narrow wavy red line bobbles against the four walls simultaneously, producing a giant square of four red lines that imprints itself on the spectators as they walk between the wall and light source. In the last room, another homage to the square is created by a bold six-inch-wide band of white light that moves in continuous waves...
...Negro demonstrator was screaming hysterically at a Negro soldier: "How can you do this to us? Don't you realize you're fighting for Wall Street? How can you do it?" The Negro soldier spoke to his sergeant, then was replaced at his station...
...ticket office doesn't try to arbitrate whether a seat in row MM of section 35 is better than one in row G of section 33. So seniors are put in the two sections closest to midfield, juniors next and sophomores against the wall behind the goalline. So a senior can end up in row E peering between shoulder pads on the Crimson bench...
Charging towards the steps of the Pentagon, many marchers managed to bypass the Army's first line of defense and ran into a secondary wall of MP's. Piling up behind the MP's more troops moved in to re-inforce the original line; U.S. Marshals wearing white helmets, business suits and night sticks patrolled the lines. There was a little pushing on both sides, a few minor skirmishes, but nothing very serious. Most of the protestors were satisfied with the ground they had gained--what was later to be christened the "Free Pentagon"--and were convinced that the violence...