Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anyone remembers that, he is 40(as Herndon is) and reduced to writing about it...In practice they (we) do or don't do things as a matter of reaction--as if we came into school each day as so many blanks, having wiped ourselves clean of desire between breakfast and getting off the bus or getting out of our car...Once officially in the school, we dispose of our cans of Coke and our smokes and await the presentation of our daily (streams of) lives by the school, and it is to that presentation that we respond...
...uprising, which appeared to be spontaneous rather than long-planned. The inmates themselves discounted the importance of a dinnertime incident one evening last week in which two prisoners hurled glass shards at a guard; the offenders were thrown into solitary confinement and, they claimed, beaten. Next morning after breakfast, one group of inmates refused to line up for a work detail, and the riot was on. In a short time, windows in nearly every cell block were smashed, bedding and furniture were set afire, and three buildings were burned out. Guards were quickly captured. Some of the hostages were beaten...
...powers of persuasion-and political survival. The son of a peasant farmer in the Ukraine, he worked as a shepherd, steam fitter and coal miner. In 1918 he joined the Red Army, quickly becoming a political commissar. As a delegate to the 14th Party Congress in 1925, he skipped breakfast every morning so he could get a front seat near Stalin...
...went to work at odd jobs on the road while his mother took in boarders. His Great-Aunt Sis used to tell about the night she took in Jesse James and his partner just before they robbed a bank in Russelville. They left a $10 gold piece under a breakfast plate. As a kid in bib overalls, Warren pitched in and did his share; he picked strawberries for 2? a quart, wormed tobacco for 25? a day, loaded sand onto trucks for road builders...
Such reasoning is reflected in the camp's somber, ascetic routines. Director Russ Kelner, 30, a bearded, hard-nosed Philadelphia high school teacher, is running the camp with militaristic verve. Reveille is sounded at 6 a.m. Karate training is conducted from 6:15 to 7:30. After breakfast, because the rifle range is only partially completed, half the group at a time holds target practice while the other half lifts weights...