Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goodman rips this statement apart: can the Governor devise better challenges that the gang-leader? are these mysterious energies undifferentiated? where can a young man now find a greater 'togetherness' than in the strict conformity of the gang? The official practice, Goodman charges, is to write these boys off as useless and try to cajole or baffle them into harmlessness...
...Gang's All Here
...whose thundering voice and flamboyant presence were guaranteed to fill any hall in Russia. Fellow poets honored him by becoming imitators-critics marveled at craftsmanship that seemed to make the Russian language his private property. Shortly before his death he had promised to "raise/above the heads of a gang of self-seeking/poets and rogues./ 11 the hundred volumes of my Communist-committed books." But the last poem he ever wrote ended: "Love's boat has smashed against the daily grind./Now you and I are quits...
...Those who counsel teen-agers realize that often those who are unhappy in school are those who cannot 'keep pace.' If the gang travels to the next town to take in a game and you can't go along, if the sweater for the rally or the booster's club happens to cost more than your family can afford, or if you can't stop now and then to buy a Coke after school-sometimes these things pile up until school just isn't worthwhile...
...buses from 32 states rolled into Albuquerque last week, 1,129 teenage voices inside howled in eerie chorus. The tunes sounded oddly like Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here and Let Me Call You Sweetheart. They came out as "lo, lo, omnes adsunt,/ Quid curae est nobis/ Quid curae est nobis . . ." and "Vocabo te amicam/ Ego amo te/ Audiam te dicer e/ Te amare me . . ." It was the Junior Classical League, holding its seventh national convention at the University of New Mexico...