Word: gizzards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Something in the Gizzard...
...Your cover story on drugs [Sept. 26] makes it manifestly clear that today's youngster has something in his gizzard...
...rowdyism is described from the viewpoint of the twelve-year-old Albert, a mist of ruefulness and loss drifts across the narrative. Even when Albert has blundered beyond the streets controlled by Catholic and Jewish slum-runners into a schoolyard held by Negroes and seems about to have his gizzard sliced, the tone is one of marveling reminiscence, not fright. Albert's perceptions are never solidly those of a twelve-year-old apprentice delinquent; often they are those of a 45-year-old writer. "Whistling, he bounced into Benny's narrow store," Green writes. "It always reminded Albert...
...spoke in fluent, idiomatic English--it "got his gizzard" when someone praised the old Continental school system. Yet Europe gave him his languages; I saw books in German, Russian, French, Italian, Swedish, and Latin, and there were probably more. He was modest about his gifts: "In European economic history, you pick up languages as you go along." Walking to the bookcase, he put his hand on some volumes by the great Swedish economic historian, Eli Heckscher. "I am a great admirer of Heckscher's, and the Scandinavian experience is very important. So my wife and I learned Swedish together...