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  • In a random test of verb repetition, of the first 60 distinctive verbs in "Fugitive Days," an incredible 55 appear in "Dreams" and only 37 in "Sucker Punch" [Cashill's own memoir] despite the fact that Ayers is closer in age and education to Cashill than to Obama.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • Supposedly Bill Ayers uses nautical imagery in Fugitive Days because he was once a merchant seaman.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • In the 1840 revision in Fugitive Verses (and in subsequent editions), Baillie glosses the word hind as "somewhat above a common labourer, — the tenant of a very small farm, which he cultivates with his own hands" (DPW 772).

    '[S]hak[ing] the dwellings of the great': Liberation in Joanna Baillie’s Poems (1790) 2008

  • From the early 1930s, Warner Bros. had made its reputation as Hollywood's scrappiest and most political studio with gritty, realistic films inspired by banner headlines and controversial social problems — films such as Public Enemy (1931) and I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932).

    Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

  • This same Colonel Whittlesey, in a volume entitled Fugitive Essays, published a sketch of the history of Cleveland covering the same ground more concisely, and also giving a few extra details about the history between 1812 and 1840.

    The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884 Various

  • The relative directed him to OnTheLookout. net, and he called the Fugitive Task force.

    News Channel 9: Local News 2009

  • 49Presented as a "personal message" from RKO's head of production, the trailer opened with Schary sitting behind his executive desk, explaining to the audience that, while many in the film industry doubted whether moviegoers wanted to see such "outspoken" entertainment, Schary, "remembering the success of films like Grapes of Wrath and I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang," forged courageously ahead, certain that "audiences still want to see courageous motion pictures."

    Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

  • 38Hollywood cultural workers were impressed by movies with progressive themes, particularly biopics such as Juarez, The Story of Louis Pasteur, and The Life of Emile Zola, or stories of "little men" or "the people" such I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, and The Grapes of Wrath.

    Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

  • There’s nothing in Fugitive Days that I haven’t said out loud for thirty years — but, of course, who paid attention then?

    March « 2008 « Bill Ayers 2008

  • There’s nothing in Fugitive Days that I haven’t said out loud for thirty years — but, of course, who paid attention then?

    I’M SORRY!!!! i think…. 2008

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