Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three couples decided to try a new bar, the Ulysses. It was reportedly a place for freaks. What they found were a bunch of 16-year-old kids in motorcycle jackets. Before the Harvard student' very eyes, the ruffians smashed a table to splinters. They had fist fights. They even threw a chair that landed on the students' table. No one, however, missed a beat in the conversation...
...Thus the gathering of tribes, a gathering of those already committed to social change. Second, it was to speak to the mass of Americans who oppose the war and also oppose radical change. To them it was a statement that the movement, although in fact radical, is not a bunch of violent crazies, and that in fact it is the state which has a monopoly on violence. It did not try to tell the mass of Americans that the movement was made up of people just like them. And this is not necessarily a bad thing...
...They're just not ready to give their money away." No, argued the more daring of us, those who hadn't combed their hair or who had left the top two buttons of pastel-colored shirts unbuttoned. "The alumni hate us. They think we're a bunch of communists...
...picked up along the way. A good number of the wives were eyeing a few of the boys themselves. (After all, they had all seen The Graduate, even if it wasn't a very accurate picture of today's youth, Benjamin's Williams background notwithstanding.) And even a bunch of the men were out frugging-the last dance whose name they remembered-a little bit themselves...
...that's from fear at a distance. At the core, beyond the clutter of catch phrases and impudent imprudence, lie a bunch of people who want desperately to scrape away the sludge that covers everybody's sensitive humanity. It's no longer possible to be an English major out for a literary piece. If one does not look beyond the veneer of a "movement," one will not expand emotional contacts. And it is far easier to dump on things and people than to allow them an emotional hearing. Honest friendship allows an abandonment of the pretentious pose of self-reliance...