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...flights of imagination the author had to make when he created his gallery of characters. Though Gary was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat by birth (the Carys of Cary Castle, Donegal), his brief training as a painter helped him get inside the skin of his most famous creature, the artist-bum Gulley Jimson in The Horse's Mouth. Experience as a British colonial official (from 1914 to 1920 in Nigeria) lent nuances to one of the best portraits of an emergent African in fiction, the black-skinned hero of Gary's fifth book, Mister Johnson...
Nazi's bum...
...years. I listened with incredulity during spring training of 1964 as a major league scout, wearing a Banlon and Bermuda shorts in the box seats of Al Lopez Field in Tampa, said the death of the minors was an act of mercy. "It got rid of the 'baseball bum,'" he said. "You know, these guys who spent their whole life in the minors, with no hope of making the big time, and were out in the cold when they were...
...eight-school Ocean Hill-Brownsville district. Recruit ed during the summer from all parts of the country, McCoy's temporary teachers form one of the brainiest public school staffs in the country. Eager, dedicated and inventive, with a heavy emphasis on the Ivy League-"I'm a bum," quips one principal, "but all my teachers wear Brooks Brothers suits"-they come early and stay late, refusing to bow to the stale pedagogic commands that emanate from 110 Livingston Street, the Board of Education's central office in Brooklyn. Many have attended law school, and regular teachers complain...
That the union which he helped organize in 1962 has come far enough to mount an effective coordinated national effort in such a short time is a source of pride, almost awe to Munoz. He recalls first meeting Cesar Chavez in the early sixties: "He was just a bum like the rest of us. We were working down in Bakersfield picking potatoes. Chavez started talking around and we decided none of us could make it any longer on the wages we were getting. We knew we had to do something--get organized or something...