Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...housing market has been seriously slowed. Housing starts are down 80% in Indianapolis. 65% in Cleveland. Stock-brokerage houses are letting some of their people go. The manager of the Bull N' Bear Restaurant in Chicago's financial district says that business has dropped off 15% and brokers who used to eat in his dining room now take their meals in the less expensive cafeteria and coffee shop. "And they're not boozing or partying as much." he adds. Summer jobs for students are in short supply...
...better or worse, we occupy the middle ground in the war of the generations. "We may be the only ones left in American society who can see what's great and what's bull," says Frank Conroy, 34, the author of Stop-Time. "We have no ax to grind." We are the only ones who understand both languages, the only ones who can explain the young to the old, the old to the young. Our job, in the end, may be only that of translator, but this may now be the most important...
...break apart the components of "the big lie." Pusey says we call Harvard hopelessly bigoted. This, as it intends, summons images of Birmingham. Alabama, and Sheriff Bull Conner spitting juice from his "Mail Pouch" chewing tobacco. And of course Pusey is right, Harvard does not look like that. It wears a coat and tie, and on a bread-based scale, is less reprehensible than some other forces in society. But racism is practiced here, in its liberal dress. A prime example is the issue of the painter's helpers...
...face, a budding second chin that gives him a self-indulgent look, virile, thick, dark eyebrows and steady dark eyes, a calm voice-is there restrained passion underneath, or despair? So like McCarthy. To the kids he says the right things, he sounds straight, no shucking here, no bull...
...charges that such revelations undermine the sacred image of baseball, Bouton answers: "Fans are fed a constant stream of bull about these clean-cut, All-America guys. Let kids start thinking about some real heroes instead of phony heroes." What riles Bouton most of all is the accusation that he makes everyone look bad except himself. "Good God," he says, "I'm in there most of all. I'm bare-assed naked in a swimming pool at a Hollywood party with martinis in both hands, shouting for joy. How's that for self-image...