Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these districts took the easy way by adopting "freedom of choice" plans, under which Negroes are to designate the school they wish to attend. These plans have been attacked by civil rights groups because "freedom of choice" places the burden of initiative upon local Negroes-who have to buck intense white pressure-rather than putting the responsibility on school officials...
...names like The Bag I'm In, a leather goods store, Snug, a bar which is, and Little Pleasures, an ice cream and sweets parlor. Soup's On is a restaurant offering a big bowl of the stuff, a hunk of French bread and coffee for a buck, while Chances R and its sister restaurant across the street (called Across the Street) push a ton of hamburger and give away half a ton of peanuts every week...
...Buck is Texas-born and New Mexico-bred, strong in the trousers and weak in the head. At 27, he imagines himself a sort of composite TV cowboy and spends most of his time riding mattresses. Somehow he decides that riding conditions are better in the East: "The men there is just faggots mostly, so the women got to buy what they want." As the book begins, he is heading for Manhattan with mounting hopes...
Adolescent Fantasy. Joe Buck is a sheep. Son and grandson of prostitutes, he loses his mother when he is seven and is fetched up by "Gramaw." At 17, he meets a girl named Chalkline Annie and makes the scene on a pile of old carpets in the storeroom of the neighborhood movie house. After that, "the persons, female and male alike, who were so eager to avail themselves of his splendid body never appeared to notice that it was inhabited by Joe Buck...
...ungratefully suggests an author condescending from an arrogant altitude upon the lives of the absurd little people he has consented to consider. But the grotesquerie, more often than not, is magically imaginative, and the little people are accorded minute examination and archetypal significance-if not full human being. Joe Buck is a Job in boob boots...