Word: em
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Labor was beginning to look forward with anticipation to the Kennedy era. Said Seafarers Union Skipper Paul Hall of the tugboat strike: "The railroads got the hell kicked out of 'em. Now that the railroad brotherhoods have seen this, they got blood on their teeth. They will be a helluva lot tougher...
...Oxford,* "snob" is not just another four-letter word but a way of being. Class, according to the despairing cry of Poet John Betjeman, is the primary English passion, one that has survived the welfare state and the shrunken horizons of em pire. The subject, class, and the scene, Oxford, form the substance of this depressing but enlightening fictional report on what might be called the Cold War Generation...
...rural serenity. Everything, that is, save Basketball Coach Al McGuire, 32. Brash as Broadway, New York-born Al McGuire still has a subway tang to his speech as he blows his horn with the stridency of a barker at Coney. "I fill the people's gymnasiums, give 'em a good show and a good ball game," he says. "I may make silly statements, but I'm no jerk...
...whole hundred on lunches. I never even try to get a boy who's all-city or anything like that. I look for good boys on bad teams. I like to get boys from poor families, or maybe boys who had to quit school. I want 'em hungry, but not mean. They come down here without seeing the campus-they might not come if they saw it first...
...Guard Vaught that left both the ball carrier and himself lying senseless on the field. "I'm a fundamentalist," Vaught says. "I believe in perfection of execution, in the blocking and tackling angles of the game." Signs spotted around his office spell out his football philosophy: "Put 'em on the ground...