Word: celling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...understanding teacher, a fast-maturing poet. He stows away on a train to Paris. Drunk with wonder, he prowls this incandescent city, perches on curbstones to scribble his poems. He sleeps on pavements and swipes food from the markets. Caught and jailed, he is raped in his cell by a vagrant pederast. In shock and shame, Claude is brought home to his raging mother...
...then into the tax commissioner's office. They carried him back to the marshal's office, where they asked him to sign a form that would enable them to release him temporarily. Again McCrackin refused to cooperate, and the arm-weary officials toted him into a detention cell, where he stretched...
Testing anew the strength of his convictions. John David Provoo was cell-bound last week. His old trouble-treason -dated from the World War II surrender of Corregidor, when California-born U.S. Sergeant Provoo bowed deeply to his arriving captors, spoke to them in fluent Japanese, offered his humble services. A toadying informer, he bullied Americans, baked layer cakes for the Japanese, caused the execution of a U.S. captain. But after the war, the case was bungled in U.S. legal machinery, and Provoo's conviction was reversed on technical grounds by the Supreme Court. This time...
...book. Prefaced by a fictitious academic fathead who presents it as a message to "parents, social workers, [and] educators," the book describes the transcontinental debauch of a twelve-year-old girl by a middle-aged monomaniac. As it turns out, the narrator is writing his apologia from a prison cell (he is to be tried for murder). As far as erotic detail is concerned, the book tells little that has not been dealt with in a lot of bestselling fiction; but where the sexy bestsellers talk about the sordid or tragic facts of life in staccato sociology, couch jargon...
...white woman jailed at the same time on a forgery charge testified that she saw Treloar walk into the cell and hit Daniel "ten or twelve times" with a club. Another white prisoner testified that on another occasion the sheriff caught Daniel "hollering out a window," clubbed him "three or four times." Respected Dr. Maubry McMillan, summoned at midnight to treat the stricken Daniel in jail, said Treloar told him: "I had to tap him on the head." Another physician testified that Daniel died nine days later of a brain hemorrhage...