Word: furloughing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last Christmas Chicoine earned a furlough to see his family, whom he is still close to. That only adds to the irony of his status as something of a celebrity at Vermont's maximum-security prison. Only five men now in Windsor have spent more time imprisoned there, and three of them are murderers...
...makes world war two dramas like Arthur Laurent's Home of the Brave look like a Yank comic strip. For Hummel the army world is his only hope for salvation, the only remedy for his fatherlessness. And in a way he makes it his salvation. Home on a furlough, his pink-suited, mod half-brother treats him with the mild contempt he always has until Hummel explodes. "Look at me! I'm different! I used to be an asshole, I'm not an asshole anymore!" But Pavlo abandons himself totally and blindly to the military ethic that has finally given...