Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Benton and Newman spin a yarn based on the exploits of the gangs of runaway boys who roamed the western territories in order to flee from the Civil War draft. The two heroes are Drew Dixon, an Ohio boy of sound upbringing, and Jake Rumson, a Pennsylvania wildcat, not only a runaway but a deserter. Jake, contemptuous of all authority and opinion other than his own, leads the gang Drew joins up with. And Drew, for reasons unexplained, becomes his only friend...
Fearing that the murders were the work of a Manson-style gang, some residents of Barrington Hills were even said to have started carrying shotguns to cocktail parties. Last week the gang theory gained some credence. Chicago police announced that they had arrested nine black youths who are members of a little-known terrorist group that calls itself...
...group of disgruntled Viet Nam veterans. Racial hatred, he said, "could have been one of the primary motives" for the slayings. "I can see no other apparent motivation." Chicago newspapers were quick to play up the case. Chicago Today, for instance, ran headlines declaring MURDER GANG 3,000 STRONG and DE MAU MAU TAKING OVER FOR THE PANTHERS. Sources close to the black-militant movement, however, called such charges preposterous, saying that De Mau Mau was a loosely organized group with less than 50 members...
Holy Angels' 1,300 students all come from Chicago's crumbling South Side ghetto, home turf of the feared street gang, the Black P Stone Nation. Their parents, half of whom are on welfare, must promise in advance not only to pay $18 a month but also to attend monthly P.T.A. meetings and weekly Mass-even though less than half of them are Catholic. "This is a Catholic school first, not a community school," declares the black parish priest, the Rev. George Clements. "We want them to set an example for their children, and we want non-Catholic...
Both works contrast with Philip Roth's Our Gang, no less powerful a satire, but more traditional in form. Our Gang reports the story of Trick E. Dixon, President of the United States, a man with the courage to declare, "the unborn have rights...recognized in law." Though the premise is an actual Nixon proclamation of 1971, the action thereafter is fantasy. The best testimony to Roth's satirical skills is the effectiveness with which his fiction captures the reality of Nixon and of the country's reaction...