Word: dems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dennis R. Kanin '67, Young Dem in charge of the campaign, said that although Cambridge is heavily Democratic as a whole, "our area has more old yankee families than the other half...
...Peabody is a problem," a Young Dem's official noted before the meeting began, "because of his unreserved support of the administration in Vietnam. Chub is not as close to the students as he once...
...dogs or Marianne Moore, but where you can hear Latin-American music blasting all night, where Al Capone is a martyr, where you can buy licorice for a penny, where you can get the best malted milks in the world. "Only 1% of the kids are still dese, dem and dose types," says Professor Barrow. Not true. As long as there's a Brooklyn, there'll be a great, great many "dese, dem and dose" types. "Kids," he calls us. Well these "kids" are the happiest in the world. Don't doubt us for a minute...
...Green-pernt and Bensonhoist, Coney and Canarsie, the land of kosher pizza and the foot-long frankfurter, of pickles with everything and every third Schaefer's on the house. It was Leo The Lip Durocher bawling out the umpires at Ebbets Field, the impassioned rooters alternately toasting Dem Bums with Cokes and bombarding them with the empty bottles...
...ultimate symbol of Brooklyn's disinstitutionalization is the virtual disappearance of The Accent, that ebullient glottal goulash of old Dutch, Yiddish, Irish, Italian and perhaps even Mohawk. "Only 1% of the kids are still dese, dem and dose types," says Speech Professor Bernard Barrow of Brooklyn College. "It is very difficult today to know a Brooklyn boy from a Bronx boy." Even The Bridge has lost its mystique. Not for three years, at least, the police report somewhat sadly, has a con man tried to sell...