Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jingoism got a big lift when I read about that increasingly famous institution, the Hingham town dump, an out-of-door cracker barrel where you meet your friends and neighbors of a Sunday [March 30]. Our youngest son, at the age of four, used to ask every out-of-town guest in true booster fashion, "Have you seen the dump...
...here, going to the town dump in a nearby canyon has long been a favorite pastime, not only on Sunday. In the cool of the evening, the pines surround the area, dark and mysterious, and the purple mountains are etched against the glow of the setting sun. Families of sleek skunks sally forth to seek food in among the old car bodies, washing machines, boxes, and tires. Indeed we must claim the most beautiful dump in the country...
...compulsion "to do something really dangerous," and Judd loyally approves "the perfect crime" as "the true test of the superior intellect." So they kidnap a 14-year-old schoolboy named Paulie Kessler (fictional name for Bobby Franks), cosh-kill him in the back of a rented car, and dump the body in a culvert. Remorse? Artie seems incapable of human feeling. But thoughtful, sensitive Judd protests too much: "Murder's nothing! It's just a simple experience. What's one life more or less...
...town dump is just a nice place for people to meet, leave trash, vow eternal friendship and go their ways." So spoke Northeastern University's Professor Everett Marston of Duxbury, Mass, one day last week. Duxbury (pop. 4,280), like many upper-middle-income bedroom communities that sprawl around Boston, is the scene of a new form of social phenomenon-somewhat like the old town pump-that is coming to full flower in New England. In Duxbury's town dump, as in Lincoln's, Hingham's and Wayland's, local citizens who can well afford...
...even the town dump can make for complexities. "Like everything else in this Atomic Age," muses Professor Marston, "our dump is getting organized and is not as informal as it once was. The privilege of taking things has gone." It may not be long before some cheerful martini-toting group, decked out in Sunday-go-to-dumping clothes, will be confronted by the ultimate of barriers: a sign reading NO DUMPING...