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...director of counseling at Vermont's Middlebury College: "It's a tragic vestige of ancient tribal customs in which painful initiation rites were extremely important. To prove one's masculinity you had to experience pain. The more pain, the closer the male bond became." Adds Willard Broom, Illinois' associate dean of campus services and programs: "It's all a physical dependence process. I guess it's sort of the way the Army does basic training...
...fiction and fact that wells from a profound need to nourish himself with a comprehensible past. Haley recreates the Old South of mansions and slave shacks, fully aware that chains and blood ties were at times indistinguishable. The book dramatically details slave family life-birth, courtship, marriage ("jumping the broom"), death and the ever present fear of being sold off and having to leave your...
Swept Clean. The peeling in Baltimore was painful. When Thomas came in 1972, the team was only one year past a Super Bowl title, but already aging and on the way down. One by one, veterans like Unitas, Tom Matte and John Mackey were benched, then traded. His broom swept clean: only six of the 40 veterans on the squad were with Baltimore before Thomas arrived...
...Charleston, W. Va., the nominee shored up his liberal credentials (actually, he prefers to call them populist), attacked the Republicans as corrupt, incompetent and insensitive, and referred to the "Nixon-Ford Administration." He evoked applause from an American Bar Association audience when he vowed "to take a new broom to Washington and do everything possible to sweep the house of Government clean...
Blind Eye. The carriers seem to be resisting the broom-wielding administration of Eduard Shevardnadze, an austere former police chief who was made regional party boss in 1972, when private corruption threatened to engulf the entire local Communist organization. With officials turning a blind eye, profiteers had, among other things, been looting several large factories and selling their products on the black market. Capitalist-minded peasants had been loading flowers and produce aboard Aeroflot flights to Moscow, where they could be sold at large profit...