Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Presuming in good American fashion that the accused are innocent until proved guilty, my reaction to news stories on a plot to kidnap Henry Kissinger [Jan. 25] and to blow up the heating systems of federal buildings is that the church is alive and well in jail in the persons of the Berrigan brothers and their "co-conspirators...
...grand jury is investigating an alleged Weatherman plot to purchase explosives in Tucson and transport them to California...
...five have continued to refuse to testify on the grounds that the questions violate their rights under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth Amendments, and on the grounds that the questions are vague and irrelevant to the grand jury's official purpose, to investigate the alleged plot to transport explosives...
Means of Escape. Their narrator-hero, Peter Harkness, is a product of the affluent suburbs, a student at Harvard and a "good head." The story starts with his flying trip to Berkeley to pick up ten bricks of righteous grass. From there, the plot hurtles forward with pace, plausibility and a cast that would do credit to an Ian Fleming thriller. Meet Musty the connection, who regularly runs 2,000 kilos of pot-no more, no less-from Mexico to California; John Thayer Hartnup III, Harvard's richest student and biggest dealer; Sukie, of the long legs and golden...
Peter's tone of voice as he tells the story keeps the plot from lapsing into farce. Melancholy, not revolutionary fervor, afflicts him. Tolerantly, he still laughs at his father's dull jokes and politely listens to his college adviser. Nevertheless, he speaks for ambivalent, marijuana-struck youth when he wryly observes the machinelike aspects of civilization and objects to the meaninglessness of a life in which people become what they are "least afraid of becoming." Given such a context, Peter calculates that pot, with all its drawbacks, provides a means of honest and pleasurable rebellion and escape...