Word: bond
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first half turned into a war of attrition as each team lost players in brutal scrum battles on a wet and icy turf. Only near the end of the half could fullback Gary Bond break the stalemate by making a winding run that resulted in Harvard's first four points...
...Bond started at mid field, slipped off one Yale forward, dodged another with a fake pitch and tripped up a third with a graceful stutter step before slipping a pass to hooker Tom Grady, who ran the ball...
...this task the writers need an appropriate language, and a grounding in the day-to-day experience of the people with a special bond. Muscle and Blood is best when Rachel Scott is mad, and I get mad, too, when I think not only of the slaughter but of the suicides, of James Johnson who was massacred. He murdered himself, just like the terminal alcoholics in Hamtramck and the junkies on the line in Lordstown and the men who drive like hellfire out of company parking lots and snuff themselves out on their way home from work. These figurative suicides...
...what was happening in America was a systematic campaign to destroy a band of like-minded people who shared the same history, endured the same conditions and were trying to win their freedom. Genocide. Or whatever you want to call it, because for the Panthers, who had the special bond, the words were only meaningless symbols, symbols that belonged to the enemy. For a group representing a people without a voice in society, a group standing outside of society, using their words only gets yourself lost. Because they can use the words any way they want...
...soon as Scott starts dealing with the way these people talk, she loses the special bond with the people she's really writing about, like the liberals rejecting Armstrong. One minute the reporter in her is comparing statistics with an executive, the next she's talking to a human victim and the numbers don't matter anymore. Statistics--as the bureaucrats so aptly demonstrate in this book--can prove anything. And besides, we have statistics: Heilbroner on the food shortage, Ehrlich on population, Commoner on ecology. With so many books to read, with figures dwarfing anything Scott's talking about...