Word: crumb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...players are scoured by suffering and torture; the acid of prison life burnishes them to saintliness, and they become Dostoevsky's "holy fools of God." A few others become the minions of hell and savage their brothers for a bread crumb. But the bulk of men remain the same, irretrievably wedded to their petty vices and their tepid virtues. For them, the prison camp is a change in milieu, not a change in character. Such is the breadth and depth of Solzhenitsyn's vision that he chooses to be the voice of these voiceless and mediocre many. Without...
...comic book series inaugurated this month will do nothing to erase the suspicions. HEE HEE Bogeyman, and Honky Tonk, all published by Company and Sons, an underground company, are directed at the young freak audience that finds Robert Crumb's Head Comix and Felix the Cat less than fascinating, and the traditional Dell and Marvel labels absolutely boring. All three assume an acquaintance with hard drugs and are only formally connected with their heroic predecessors. More than surrealistic, gross visual explicitness washes each frame with a desperate finality. Where the cover of Felix the Cat shows Felix and his girlfriend...
...week stipend and began attending during the day, taking an accelerated 50 credits a year instead of the usual 30. "I was skeptical about the SEEK program lasting," he says. "I don't believe in white altruism, and I thought it would be just another crumb, a token. At the end of every year there was a rumor that there'd be no more money." He found SEEK counselors basically helpful, though some of them were liberal whites "who were overpermissive," and others were middle-class blacks "who had pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps and were...