Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee of Responsibility, a national organization of physicians and clergy, showed a film about civilian casualties in Vietnam to 400 people in the Harvard Square Theatre last weekend...
Harvard's squash team thrashed Canada's McGill University, 8-2, Saturday to highlight a victorious three-match weekend in Montreal...
Fisher first arrived in Anguilla for the 4th of July weekend, when the island, to show its liking for the United States, made American independence day an Anguillian holiday. The two broad tasks lying before Fisher were to reduce the possibility of a military invasion by St. Kitts and to gain whatever minimal recognition and assistance Anguilla required to survive. Toward both ends, Fisher drafted a one-page constitution, specifying at the end that Anguilla was not to return to its association with St. Kitts unless a plebiscite so directed...
...Barnard had already told Washkansky what he had in mind, adding: "You can have two days to think it over." Washkansky decided in two minutes: "Go ahead." Dr. Barnard now called in his team of 30 men and women, scattered for the summer weekend...
...really puzzling point of interpretation is the quote from King Lear, which floats through the end of the song. Why Lear? Well, it's a play about madness, and everybody's going mad. But why the death of Oswald? The recording did come out on the anniversary of the weekend when Lee Harvey Oswald killed a great ruler and then died himself. Maybe the Beatles are ironically saying that degraded, crazy Oswalds can change the course of the world. And maybe the Lear allusion explains that most men no matter what staggeringly infamous deeds they perform, will die insignificant deaths...