Word: bunched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Evidently, the complaints and needs of those in the trade have been submerged for too long without channels for expression or counter-action, and COYOTE is the first attempt to respond from within. This is no bunch of holier-than-thou reformist outsiders trying to barge in and clean up--COYOTE is hookers helping hookers...
...Congress has turned Ford's water off. South Africa has pulled out. UNITA is forced to fight not only the M.P.L.A. and the Cubans up front but a miserable bunch of F.N.L.A. cowards from behind. Any help from mercenaries will be too little and too late. The game is just about over." Allowing for a bit of hyperbole, that dour summation of the Angolan civil war last week by an American diplomat in Nairobi was fairly close to the mark...
...hall by the Civil War Dead plaques, waiting for something. He looks like a good old boy, tall and bearded and tough-looking. Someone asks him what exam he has just gotten out of. He sneers, "Ah, uh...I don't know, there's a whole bunch of 'em in there," and turns around, toking...
...most instructive altercation in the program came when a tall American black man in a shabby coat rose towards the end of the session and said that although he had learned the answers to some questions this afternoon, the meeting had struck him as "intellectual masturbation" by a bunch of closeted academics who haggle too much among themselves in "the Harvard Science Center and other bullshit halls," estranged from the "common man." The man, who would identify himself only as a "resident of Roxbury," later whispered that he felt the need to remind "intellectuals of their responsibility on the other...
...doing what he does, that's where he might be, or "at business school or something," he says. Brayton went to exclusive Milton Academy; his father is head of a large clothing company in Pennsylvania. This isn't held against him in baseball, where there are "just a bunch of guys, like at Harvard or anywhere else. Hell, look at Varney." And indeed, White Sox catcher Pete Varney '71 comes from Quincy, Massachusetts--his background has none of the trappings of the Harvard stereotype, unless it is the very real stereotype of the local kid plucked up by Harvard athletics...