Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Philip Berrigan and four of his co-defendants denied yesterday they were part of a Washington bomb conspiracy or a plot to kidnap former Harvard professor Henry A. Kissinger '50, President Nixon's advisor on national security affairs...
...Federal Correctional Institute in Danbury, Conn., where he is serving a six-year sentence for destroying draft records in Maryland. Afterwards, Kunstler issued a statement by Berrigan and said Berrigan viewed the charges as "a colossal blunder" which the government "has stampeded into" because of accusations of a similar plot made last November by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover...
Berrigan and his brother Daniel, also a Roman Catholic priest, were accused of the plot by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover late last year in testimony before a Senate subcommittee. Hoover linked the plot to a move to force the United States to leave Vietnam and to release alleged political prisoners...
...miscalculation of public opinion. To return to the stereotypical Joan Crawford flick ("Let me alone, Paul, I'm a lost crusade") would be to drown in a sea of sorghum, to turn off the young, the middle-aged and the old. To generations brought up on television, every plot is known; to a sexually liberated society, every shock has been felt or consciously bypassed...
...plot of Love Story seems almost incomprehensible to a modern audience. Ollie's capacity for social outrage consists of marrying a girl who looks more at home in a country club than he does. Three years after Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? , Segal's hero is scarcely able to kiss a Cliffie who merely claims to be a former Italian Catholic. With poker face, Jenny attributes the crazy affair to the liberal atmosphere at Harvard-or Mother Leveller, as she is known to friends. Jenny always mentions her family's poverty with vague discomfort, as would any girl with...