Word: weres
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The 14 people arrested October 29 in connection with the eviction of four families on North Harvard Street yesterday were granted a continuance of their trial until June 23. 1970. Ten of the defendants are Harvard students.
Robert Galluzzo, an attorney associated with the Boston Legal Aid Society, represented the 14. He told them that the continuance was granted primarily because they were students and because all but three of them had had no previous records.
So there we were. A half-million people sitting in the middle of the imperial seat, surrounded by its lying architecture. One of the isolated Americas superimposed on another. How many times had we all been through the very same ceremony? It was as if we had to gather every...
The ceremony was sickeningly familiar, from the lackluster prose of the speakers who never really moved the chilled crowd to the final rampages of a few Weatherman-types through the streets of downtown Washington. Even the cops were used to the script this time. It was easy to engage them...
So there we were. Laughing at Spiro Agnew and chanting. "All we are saying is give peace a chance." As if that were any less idiotic than Agnew's various oral commissions. If we couldn't define ourselves in terms of each other at least we could define ourselves in...