Word: cops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chose some unlikely writers to cast a new light on events, and it is quite often a lurid one. In Esquire, that chronicler of human decay and perversion, Jean Genet, reports that he could smell America decomposing; he was also fascinated by the size of the thighs of Chicago cops. In the same magazine, William Burroughs concocts a fantasy in which a purple-bottomed baboon runs for President. Esquire's John Sack, on the other hand, convincingly finds the typical cop much more playful, much less passionate about his skull-splitting than other commentators suggest. In National Review, Garry...
Happily, Mailer remains a minor character in his work. He indulged, it is true, in a bit of cop-baiting at the Democratic Convention and got into a scuffle with a hippie-hater. But it was mercifully brief and it is briefly told. Otherwise, his subject matter keeps him too occupied to find much time for self-dramatization. In the process, he may have become an uncertain friend of the left. To youth's search for spontaneity and sensual gratification, he offers a 45-year-old's caution: "The best things in life were most difficult to reach...
...Squaders are under the direction of a tough cop who never praises them, dresses them down constantly, and generally acts like a Marine Sergeant. And, of course, this is just the kind of treatment these kids need, yes sir. They need standards. They need discipine. They've been coddled too long. They love a good swift kick...
...Squad," the black kid, incredulous at being taken back on the force, says, "We thought we were finished." And the tough cop replies, "That's the trouble with you kids today. You think too much...
Fierce debate flared during the meeting over the meaning of "all appropriate steps." In a pamphlet called "Disguised Cop-Out," students had complained that such "purposefully ambiguous" phrasing could be used "to conceal a faculty cop-out." Student rallies this week at Berkeley have demanded that the faculty ask for immediate credit for the course...