Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyes belong to a short, unshaven, portly young man with a Saragossa shock of black hair, a pair of plaid suspenders, a polka-dot bow tie, and the look of John L. Lewis with a beer bottle benignancy. His shoe-soles are worn to a sharp angle and he occasionally scratches...
...societies and tongs, the gangs have a "tiger general" who hands collections to a "grass sandal," who passes them to a "white fan." Led into battle by the "tiger generals," the secret societies beat up little boys on the streets, extort money from other youths who don't belong, and fight rival gangs with knives and clubs. In the past six weeks there has been a sudden upsurge in violence, with 51 gang fights and six murders...
...hatred, self-accusation and self-aggrandizement taint most such accounts of revolution. Alan Moorehead's book is different. It is a clear-eyed rendering by an expert reviewer who makes the drama come alive again and establishes some new areas of truth. The ideological burdens the book carries belong to the narrative, not the narrator, and it contains no haunted hindsights...
...workers of the world, Orwell ends his book with an address to his ruined brothers of the British middling classes, crippled by debt and (in his view) shackled by snobbery. He invited them to descend with him into the nether regions of the "working class where we belong," for, says he, "we have nothing to lose but our aitches." The British middle classes, however, have stubbornly continued to cling to their social aspirations and their aspirates. Class war may be 'ell. but the better-bred Briton has decided to huff it out on his own side of the phonetic...
...roll. And many of the greatest composers have failed at it. The high quality of the Valente and Sweelinck works was partially obscured by the numbing tediousness of the Pasquini and Soler. The Handel work--the so-called "Harmonious Blacksmith" set--comes from a harpsichord suite and does not belong on the organ, despite the glib statement in the program notes that the harpsichord is "interchangeable with the organ...