Word: cooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wright's first crisis of conscience came when, as a dishwasher, he noticed a white cook spitting into the soup. To tell or not to tell the boss was the question. In the South, such tattling would have led to his being fired. He pondered his dilemma: "I wondered if a Negro who did not smile and grin was as morally loathsome to whites as a cook who spat into the food." Virtue, in this instance, triumphed...
...cook was dismissed; Wright stayed...
...feeling like they wree lined with sandpaper and about 9:30 you head on up to the Varsity Club for the pre-game meal. I know all you uninitiated think that the football team dines on juicy sirloin steak but you are so, so wrong; Mario, the V-Club cook, serves up a plate of scrambled eggs that look like those rubber gimmicks that you lay on the floor to gross out the girls in the sixth grade and with that comes your "steak," a sad old piece of meat that chews like old shoe leather...
Young said he established communication with the street people by reading them poems. "They were a fairly intelligent bunch of runaways," he says. "We got them to wash and not to cook openly in the building." Anyway, they played by the rules. But one day, Young got a call from the Cambridge police telling him to look out his window. Flames were leaping from the hall. The building was soon a charred shell...
...night Frank was killed, he said, 'Don't cook, we'll go out to dinner.' He took a shower like he always did, and we went to dinner with my son and daughter. After dinner, about 8:45 p.m., Frank said he had to see someone who was buying our '74 Cadillac. He said to wait for him at the Golden Coach Restaurant. When he didn't come back by 10 p.m., my son said, 'If I know Dad, he fell asleep in front...