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There are plenty of bums in Cambridge. Don't call them transients, vagrants, victims. They're bums. Who smell bad. Who don't work. Who talk dirty. Who sleep on vents throughout the city at night when it's fifteen degrees or colder while passersby proffer money and pity and wonder what it's like to be one of them. A bum in Cambridge. To huddle on a heat vent...
...integrity, loyalty to a view of the world that the schizophrenic is willing to stake his life on." Szasz saw schizophrenia as a "legal-cultural fiction." Said he: "It's useful to Mr. and Mrs. Hinckley to think of their son as schizophrenic when he's really just a bum...
After this brief interruption, the crowd returns to its normal level of participation. Rocky is by now starting to punish the seemingly invincible Drago, and various cries of "Kill him!" escape from alleged human beings. Rocky (and Stallone), I think, is no longer "da bum from Philly who don't talk too good." The audience really believes this cartoon of men named after Greek myths who have superhuman strengths and superhuman purposes. Stallone/Rocky no longer plays the aspiring Sigfried. He is no Wotan himself entering the Valhalla of mass popularity...
...Bum...
Edward W. Powers, director of administration and associate general counsel for employee relations, said yesterday of the union allegations, "I would consider those bum raps, especially against the chief...