Word: walls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political expression that had gripped Peking for the past two weeks. In an atmosphere reminiscent of London's lively Hyde Park Speakers' Corner, the voices of young orators demanding "true freedom, true democracy and true human rights" echoed through the early winter dusk. Thousands filed past "democracy wall" at the intersection of Chang An Avenue and Hsi Tan Street to inspect wall posters castigating some members of the ruling Politburo, policies decreed by the sainted Great Helmsman, the late Mao, and by implication, China's Chairman and Premier, Hua Kuo-feng...
...putting the lid on this unprecedented outburst of free expression, which was seemingly confined to the country's capital. One poster went up saying that informal exchanges between foreigners and the masses should be ended for the sake of national unity. Gradually, the crowds at "democracy wall" grew smaller and less demonstrative. Yet even if there were no more public challenges to Maoist orthodoxy, foreign observers were left with two distinct impressions. One was that Peking's outbreak of poster politics had been tacitly authorized by the leadership of the Communist Party. The other was that the pragmatic...
...wish to live longer," he explained. "A younger man is better for the job." (Hua is 57.) Similarly, al though few experts believe that the protesters would have denounced either Mao or Hua without Teng's permission, he chided the author of a wall poster that described Mao as being "70% good and 30% bad." Said Teng: "Mao was better than that. I myself am only 60% good...
...July was spent, or was wished it had been spent, in the center-field bleachers at Fenway Park, listening to the gentle animal roar of a bemused crowd as Rice would flick his wrists and explode another hanging curve over The Wall, or Evans would dance and whirl through space before seizing a misguided double. Nothing else seemed to matter; Mideast maneuvers and the difficulties of Dr. Peter Bourne with the Controlled Substances Act--all fell below the headlines screaming Yaz's latest heroism, bewailing Lynn's sprained pinky. And Rice continued to explode curveballs, and Evans to dance...
...rather finite knowledge in a love song called "NACL" about two sympathetic characters, an atom of chlorine ("valence minus one"), and "handsome sodium." This is the kind of song that makes you wonder what there is to think about all day in the backwoods of Canada. This off the wall song, which basically tells of the romantic side to the chemical bond that makes salt, in a gentle-twangy country melody, is probably pointless, but it showcases the sisters' dry humor. Lyrics like...