Word: bummed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Falling in love with a teen-ager named Sue Babior (he married her June 25, 1955), Sahl finally fled Los Angeles, followed her to the University of California at Berkeley, and became the academic equivalent of a ski bum. Auditing classes off and on, he drank a tun of coffee a month in all-night campus snack bars, argued art, social science and politics into the abstract hours. He slept mainly in the back seat of his moldering Chevy, and ate cold hamburgers provided by a Nietzsche-soaked friend who worked in a short-order bin. Sometimes he slept...
...suspicious timing of the two announcements, and directors grumbled about the damage to the company's reputation. After a sharp drop in profits, Hurley was buffeted by angry stockholders' questions for three hours at the annual meeting in April, finally cried: "I'm called a bum and I'm called a genius, but I think I'm somewhere in between." Suc ceeding Hurley is Corporate Lawyer T. Roland Berner, 49, who becomes chairman and chief executive officer. But he is ex pected to keep the job only temporarily until a permanent boss is named. Berner...
...Sarah Goldsmith, a mother of two who is cheating on a tabby-cat husband with a tomcat theater director; Naomi Shields, an alcoholic nymphomaniac who accommodates an entire jazz combo; Teresa Harnish, the arty wife of an art dealer who decides to find out from a Cro-Magnon beach bum how the other half loves. For a change of pace, the heroine is frigid, or thinks...
...Time Step. In Waterloo, Iowa. Reynold Nels Rickan, 27, was jailed after he bought four tickets to the policemen's ball with a bum check...
...enumerator in The Bronx asked a woman questions about her husband. Her blast: "I haven't spoken to the big bum for 32 years, and I'm damned if I'll speak to him now for your benefit...