Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best and most talented" poet, adding ominously: "Indifference to his work and memory is a crime." Independent-minded young Russians think none the better of Mayakovsky for Stalin's seal of approval. But they remember the unfinished last poem in which he derided the regime's "gang of self-seeking poets and rogues." Communist propaganda, wrote Mayakovsky, "sticks in my throat...
Victory Parade. The Bowmans thought that their ordeal was over-but they were mistaken. Three weeks ago, two of the boys were released on probation by Superior Judge Melvyn Cronin; a third was freed for lack of evidence. That night, a gang formed in the street outside Bowman's home. Through a peephole he had cut in a window shade, William Bowman watched their "victory parade," which included cars roaring over his lawn. A few nights later, egg was smeared on the windshield and hood of Bowman's car, bottles were smashed against his house, and rocks were...
...defense, Memphis State's burly linemen (average weight: 222 Ibs.) gang-tackled viciously: every pile-up seemed to be covered by flocks of blue-and-grey jerseys. On offense, Memphis State was far from peak form, but still had more than enough power to brush aside sturdy Abilene Christian whenever it counted. Coach Billy Jack Murphy cleared his 38-player bench in a merciful attempt to keep the score down, but even that tactic failed: the unbeaten Tigers rolled up 379 yds. and romped to an easy 35-0 victory...
...intricate double reverses. When the running attack occasionally lost momentum, Quarterback Pete Smith picked off receivers with bull's-eye accuracy. And the foe was no pushover: Michigan had already beaten both U.C.L.A. and Army this season by lopsided scores. But even for Coach Bump Elliott's gang-tackling team, Michigan State depth and power were too much. Final score: Michigan State, 28; Michigan...
...Romeo and Juliet in the race-riotous slums of Manhattan's Upper West Side. Romeo (Richard Beymer) is a white boy, idol of a teen tong called The Jets. Juliet (Natalie Wood) is a Puerto Rican girl whose brother (George Chakiris) is the leader of a rival street gang called The Sharks. As in Shakespeare's poem, the star-crossed lovers meet and love and find their fate in the ugly shadow of suspicion that divides their kindred. Unhappily, the literary parallel, though it lends the piece a certain spurious redolence of tradition, proves a pathetic fallacy. Shakespeare...