Word: bum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to be an artist, you risk falling on your face. I live near the Bowery. Between the artist and the bum, there is little difference...
...audience: "Hi, I'm an actress .... We've never done this before and we need your help." In the fourth Proposition program she continues, "I want you to tell me something you don't like to do." The audience shouts "work" and the Proposition improvises skits about a bum who never works, the aching back of a Russian who shovels snow all day, and finally they celebrate the liberation from all work with an Irish jig. Food suggestions provoke songs about spaghetti, "just pouring out" and steaks "on burning black eyes." While one member of the group sings the others...
...Paul A. Walters, Jr., a UHS psychiatrist, trained the Medical students to cope with persons on bum trips, by "talking them down" and finding friends to stay with them...
...carnival worker, Army drill sergeant, and newspaper advertising manager and publisher. Then, one arm went dead. There was nothing physically wrong with it, as Mike learned from his doctors. "I was afraid I couldn't stand the pressure, and I didn't want to look like a bum, so I just got myself sick with the arm." To cure his arm-and his psyche -Mike worked out in a gym. From there, he moved to his academy and other people's psyches...
...years, Mullin has been doing advertising cartooning for an insurance company, Mutual of New York. He will do a few more this year, "which will buy liquor for the year." He hopes to intersperse Florida living with a little world traveling. That, of course, takes money, but presumably the Bum has already paid the bills...