Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Federal prisons do well; yet only 17% of released federal inmates find jobs related to their prison work. Most state prisoners get no usable training because business and unions have rammed through laws preventing competition by prison industries. At least one-third of all inmates simply keep the prison clean-or do nothing...
Fighter Through the Mouth. The novels are almost naive in their simplicity. The Beach is an incident involving the tug of war between the sexes in a pointless marriage. Two seemingly compatible people are brought down by a typical Pavese monster: ennui. Not much here, but short and clean; no wasted words. The House on the Hill has bigger aims. Pavese was an anti-Fascist who was put in prison by the Mussolini regime, and then exiled to Calabria. Actually, he failed to do much more than sympathize with those who risked their lives. He was a fighter through...
...Clean for Gene...
...youth cold-shaved his chin in a Concord street to "Get Clean for Gene," while another hirsute can vasser, barred entry because of his beard by an irate housewife, borrowed a razor and tried to con vert her while depilating. Though a sign in one McCarthy headquarters proclaimed that "Strange Politics Makes Bedfellows," housing was strictly segregated by sexes (boys in a gymnasium, girls in McCarthy supporters' homes). In keeping with McCarthy's own austerity, the kids largely eschewed beer drinking, though one group of New Yorkers nearly came to grief in a Rochester bar: a local tough...
...idea of the political geography of the state, it is helpful to draw a line from Chicago northward 200 miles to Green Bay, home of football's world champion Packers. Bring the line southwest 125 miles to Madison, the clean capital and university center, and then back southeast 125 miles to Chicago again...