Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Princeton's right fielder, Bob Gang, led off the top of the ninth with a smash that eluded shortstop Jeff Grate. After whiffing the last man in the Tiger batting order, Peters walked Terry Young. A line single to center by Jim Adams brought in Gang and Young, with the heart of the Bengal batting order coming...
...FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis as two refugees from a chain gang in Stanley Kramer's The Defiant Ones...
Lyrical is not the final word for the desperate tribal rites that come to consume the lives of the couples. At the novel's outset they are merely a gang of friends who, like so many smalltown sets, see rather too much of one another. They gather for endless whisky-driven parties by night, spend their weekends playing games. They gossip in the faintly malicious, secretly thrilled saxophone tones of bourgeois life...
...find any other way to gain a goal. By definition, every society is committed to nonviolence; the violent are suicidal, for society must repress acts against law and order. Yet realistically, one cannot gloss over the fact that violence often pays off. In the violent subculture of a juvenile gang, the nonviolent are considered cowards, and violence produces not guilt but status...
Black militants used his murder to cry, "The civil rights movement is dead!" But they had said it long before his assassination. King was dangerously close to slipping from prophet to patsy. When his previous week's march in Memphis degenerated into riotous looting, a black gang leader who organized the violence chortled: "We been making plans to tear this town up for a long time. We knew he'd turn out a crowd." For years, behind his back, King's Negro denigrators had called him "de Lawd." Lately he had heard himself publicly called an Uncle...