Word: spectatorly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Such a circus, such a confrontation, such a grand, truly grand trial. I don't think it is a giant step into mythmaking to say that a spectator could pack all of the great conflicts of America into that one courtroom and live them out day-by-day as the...
Politics may be the very life of the American system as well as the nation's greatest spectator sport. But a time does come when the voter feels glazed, like a football fan who has watched New Year's Day bowl games played out across the time zones...
If it loses its appeal and any appeal to the courts, the Spectator will have to pay up to $5000 a year in state and local taxes. They will not have to pay Federal income tax because at this point their operation is losing money.
The crackdown on the Spectator has several other student papers and universities worried. The Stanford Daily, which receives a subsidy and free office space from that university, said the university has asked them not to dorse any political candidates this fall. A spokesman said they probably won't, but "only...
A statement approved unanimously Monday night by the Columbia Spectator joint managing boards said the paper "felt the IRS directive represented an effort by the Nixon administration to intimidate students from engaging in political activity."