Word: bum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest vocal adversary of the PTA and the other opposition groups is the voluble Fitzgerald. The Committee-man alternately adopts a tone of righteous innocence or angry impoliteness, with the latter being more frequent. He at one meeting called Shaplin a "big bum," and has persistently complained that the Dean has "impugned all our motives." On another occasion, Fitzgerald had CRIMSON photographers ejected from a committee meeting. He insists that, examinations or not, Cambridge residents should be given preference for teaching positions. With just as much rigor, he opposes the merit system, claiming that it is the "greatest fraud ever...
...fundamentally, he is a brother-under-the-skin to followers, say, of the Brooklyn Dodgers. All he wants is to win. He will not say of a losing coach, 'Trow da bum out,' but he will remark firmly, 'Kindly show the gentleman to the door...
...annulment at Tuesday's meeting, when those present roundly applauded the first P.T.A. speaker, who was "definitely opposed" to the committee's action. The group hissed Mayor Edward Sullivan, chairman, and laughed during a speech in favor of the appointments, by James Fitzgerald, who referred to Shaplin as a "bum...
...almost thirty, I began to make my living from writing." Hughes had been a long time getting through college. He graduated in 1929, and had worked in a hat store, on a truck farm, in a flower shop, and as a doorman, second cook, waiter, beach-comber, bum, and seaman, on the way. In that time he was writing poems too, and a novel, Not Without Laughter, which earned him a $400 award, which was what he had in 1929 when he lost his patron and decided to go to Haiti for a while...
Castaway's Vision. Such vitality as this strange and fitful novel possesses comes from Beckett's images of defeat, e.g., a bum transfixed on a city bench, a dog too weak to follow his master's steps, and from his hero's sometimes poignant inability to cope with events or comprehend reality: "I say living without knowing what it is. I tried to live without knowing what I was trying. Perhaps I have lived after all, without knowing." As a craftsman, Beckett tries to convey the chaotic by means of the incoherent, and fails. He possesses...