Word: bunch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vignettes ramble through Saroyan's life in no particular order, but they tend to bunch up at both ends, thus dealing mostly with his childhood and puberty and the present, i.e., his early 50s. Running through them all are those two great mythic figures, The Tax Collector and William Saroyan The Universal Genius. "My plays are the human race. And most of the plays of the other playwrights aren't." "My own [writing] which nobody's writing will outlive . . . will be discovered again and again. It will speak ... as long as any writing speaks to anybody...
...leadership of James Farmer. It organized the first Freedom Ride from Washington to New Orleans, but withdrew after mob violence in Birmingham and let Snick's dedicated campaigners ride on to Jackson, Miss. The group suffers fragmented leadership and a membership described by an N.A.A.C.P. leader as "a bunch of loonybirds and crackpots...
Towards the end of each meal in the evening the veilleur de nuit drops in for his bit of cheer.... He is a nobody. He carries a lantern and a bunch of keys. He makes the rounds through the night, stiff as an automaton... In the scheme of things he's not worth the brine to pickle a herring. He's just a piece of live manure and he knows it. When he looks around after his drink and smiles at us, the world seems to be falling to pieces. It's a smile thrown across an abyss. The whole...
...watch a truly fine eleven in action--Yale's Lambert Trophy winners. And although Harvard was out-manned, the Crimson played a solid, sometimes spectacular brand of football that kept things interesting. The 1960 squad, playing the way it did against Yale, would have murdered this year's bunch...
Attorney John R. Auchter said he asked for the delay because "a couple of out witnesses got tied up. "However, Dr. Stare charged that the Society which he called "a bunch of screwballs" was "unable to find any expert witness on their behalf...