Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Straight A's. Brooklyn-born John Roche is very much an intellectual. But he is also a political activist who does not subscribe to the view, common among intellectuals, that academe and the smoke-filled room are incompatible worlds. Until last year, Roche was national chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, an energetic organization that straddles both communities, and he is still an A.D.A. vice chairman. He was a speechwriter for Hubert Humphrey in 1964 and has also served Johnson, most recently on a fact-finding mission to Saigon in June...
Accompanying Brown to Capitol Hill was a witness whom he described as a "more typical manchild," Negro Arthur Dunmeyer, a 30-year-old grandfather from Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant area who recently managed to get a $100-a-week porter's job despite his lengthy prison record. Dunmeyer told the Senators that he was born illegitimately, that he fathered an illegitimate child at 15, and that a daughter of his gave birth to an illegitimate baby at age twelve. Describing illegitimacy as "just a way of life," Dunmeyer added: "I might think of having some children, not thinking...
...tenements, putrid poolrooms, stenchy saloons, dirty streets and flying garbage, they provided their children with emotional security and imbued them with dignity. This sometimes rollicking, often tender account of how they did so much with so little is told by their youngest son, Sam, now 54. who became a Brooklyn high school teacher and then a folksy matzo-barrel humorist on TV and the lecture circuit...
HOGAN'S GOAT. The poetry is purplish, the melodrama mauve, but William Alfred paints a colorful canvas of the deeds and misdeeds of Irish politicians in Brooklyn at the turn of the century...
...Editor, Walker wrote, "Pick adjectives as you would pick a diamond or a mistress." Some argue that Walker was outdone by his successor, the Trib's other celebrated Texan, Lessing Engelking, whose yen for accuracy was such that he once ordered a reporter to spend all night in Brooklyn searching for someone's middle initial. Another Trib veteran recalls: "I wrote a story about a woman having 'a breast' amputated. Mr. Engelking told me that every woman had two breasts, a left one and a right...