Word: armbands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Logos, people grasp for symbols of personal identify and some form of order for their lives. Several are pathetically familiar. One health-faddist coed wears a button proclaiming "CARROTS:" a liberal professor nervously skitters around the barren campus with an armband that reads "TREES." A studious team-mate of Gary's furiously memorizes the words to a long poem in a language he doesn't understand, for a course in "The Untellable." ("Knowledge of German was a prerequisite for being refused admission...
...there's some kind of revolution going on at my university but all I can ever do is lie on my bed and listen to Nashville Skyline. I wear a red armband and read leaflets in the streets all so no one will know I am secretly humming peggy day, not the international. someone I know who used to listen to barbra streisand is now marching in nonobstructive picket lines, someone else I know is hiding in the bio labs drawing diagrams of insects till the fight is over. still and all I am keeping myself happy singing along with...
...Turco, wearing long hair and a red armband, lost a one-fall match to clean-cut Manuel Soto, delighting the crowd. Tony Marino downed the Black Demon with little trouble, but failed to unmask him, leaving the fans to wonder if he really is Frank Bellotti...