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...gone too far. A Western buff who lives in England, Rosa has written a well-informed and lively book that tries to make a balanced revaluation of the six-gunslinger in the making of America. Rosa ends by according him a special status, halfway between John Bunyan and outright bum, as a marked-down culture hero who created for his epic era a flawed but salient image of the male...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bums or Bunyans | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...burst out, "how can you talk of ORDER! a point of order! a point of order! mr. share-man, when will you allow me one poise of ardor? one piece of order? one, please, of otherness. GIVE ME A CHANTS!? -- . . . all this and more is what Billy the Surf Bum saw in the now-opened capsule on the end of the dart he was holding in the soon-to-be-empty dating bar in which he (believe it or not) was still standing in fresno beach california, even at this hour in what what was, after all, pacific standard time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Whole Yoke Sent Her | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...ever-more-erotic and exciting Straight Backwards Time (S.T.B.), Billy the Surf Bum's mother was gazing at her navel (belly-button to you). she was entranced. in her navel were crawling four miniature St. Bernard puppies, each with a cask around its neck containing the hole whorl. "my, mmmmmmmmmy," Billy the Surf Bum's mother was saying. "i do hope my seeking son can bark better than the first. hardly since the beginning of time has man ever discovered. . . . why why why x y y? people should be more aggressive in their searches for trooth. it's more manly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Whole Yoke Sent Her | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...recent New Yorker cartoon, a scrofulous bum is shuffling past a Broadway theater at intermission time. With smug insouciance, he addresses a passing query to the patrons under the marquee: "How about it, folks? Getting your eleven dollars and ninety cents' worth?" Top ticket prices are $15 for 1776, and to answer the bum's question, it is a bearable $3 show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Birth of a Jape | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...must tell you something first, I have lied to someone about you. I mentioned farming. Silly, I know, but I through the guy had some similar drop out in mind and I brought it up to make him feel good. But I started feeling lousy. I was a bum, Pumpkin. And I had to tell you before it is accomplished...

Author: By William L. Ripley, | Title: Choosing Fruit | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

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