Word: derelicts
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Because New York was then bubbling and oozing Democratic conventioneers from every access point, it seemed derelict not to inquire if they were headed toward Madison Square Garden...
...metaphysics of James, Royce, Whitehead, Santayana, Hocking; eschew the worst cleave to the best of pilgrim fathers--in a moral commitment equal to the intellectual: you can transcend modern man into a dramatic new amalgam, generating a powerful and irresistible public mood, in which the weakest and most derelict find it easy to do right and hard to do wrong. Henry Ratliff...
...PICKS UP in the desert doesn't. With a wild mane of white hair and a beard to match, he has obviously given up on society, checked out. Yet in their conversation in Melvin's truck--the first scene of the movie--the bum emerges as more than a derelict. Melvin wants to sing Christmas carols; his guest doesn't. He is ungracious, cold and strangely snide for a man of such decrepit circumstance...
...Crimson's wanton disregard for the derelict fallout from these undocumented statements made by a Harvard professor reknowned for his "shoddy" research (i.e. his foreign students study) and belonging to a department that is presently being investigated by the U.S. Government for its failure to comply with affirmative action policies cannot be tolerated. The Crimson, as usual, has traded integrity and journalistic balance for sensationalist effect...
...could well have been spent behind a Seven & Seven, not a typewriter. But the paunchy columnist who wrote sad humor like no one else ever will could not bring himself to admit that even New York had its share of unredeemable scum, that bum was a nice word for derelict, that plenty of criminals were vicious, not loveable. And, in his whole menagerie, there was one character he never drew--the young punk who laughed at things that weren't funny, the punk who was tough because he liked it that way, needed it that...