Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columbus stands in awe before a gang of drinking, striking, shooting Americans. Says he: "I can't possibly discover America. What would they say in Europe when I tell them what I have seen...
Scar-faced Giichi Matsuda, known to his fellow gangsters as "The Intellectual" because he was a high-school graduate, was fascinated by the newfangled ideas of democracy and progress. Last December, when he became boss of the 2,000 open-air shopkeepers (tekiyas) in the Matsuzakaya street gang, he tried to put the ideas into practice. Last week they proved his downfall...
...Matsuzakaya gang had its roots in the 17th Century, when the samurai, Japan's warrior class, had formed brawling street associations as a relief from unemployment between wars. More recently members had become black market dealers and fences for stolen goods...
Last week chunky little Sol Hurok, America's leading independent salesman of culture, published his memoirs (Impresario; Random House, $3). The press-agent (Ruth Goode) who ghosted the book makes Hurok out a kind of warmhearted mother superior to a gang of temperamental darlings. But the dollar sign keeps peeping through the mother superior's habit. Sol Hurok is an expert at devising ways to make culture...
Each class has two instructors. Explains Barden: "We want teachers to be like a couple of synchronized spotlights. First one asks something, then the other chimes in, keeping things going. You gang up on one guy, firing questions at him as fast as you can. . . . Some people don't come well-prepared, but by the time the two-hour discussion is over, they wish to hell they...