Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Slumped down in his high-backed swivel chair, his brown boots propped on his typewriter, Jordan, 31, looked like a young man-with his pink face and shiny black hair-speaking to a late date. As he talked, his fingers riffled through a sheaf of unanswered telephone slips, and every so often he rolled one up and tossed it across the room at a nearby wastebasket...
...fact that the Boston pitcher is Babe Ruth, who had not yet switched to the Yankees and the outfield, and from the size of the big raise-$600, bringing Keefe to the affluence of $3,000 a year, a sum barely adequate to pay a modern player's hair stylist...
...into the mechanics of heredity, which led him to claim that man is a cosmological accident; of blood disease; in Cannes. A Resistance fighter, molecular biologist and, since 1971, director of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, he helped solve the riddle of how cells develop into unique structures like hair or the heart. In his bestselling 1970 book Chance and Necessity, he argued that there is neither god nor grand design in the universe: "Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation". His critics found his philosophy chilling and pessimistic. But like his friend Albert Camus...
...sixties were losers who survived or martyrs. Malcolm X and Che Guevera became symbols of the age. Again and again, the words of these two figures could be found in pamphlets, in underground newspapers, in conversation. The young not only kept posters on their walls, but copied the hair, the beard, the beret and the style. The cult of failure spread...
...Attila was a moody man . . . Nobody truly knew him except his mother, who sent him two hair shirts every winter...