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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure would have. I first heard "fuck" just about ten years ago, when I was in the fourth grade, and it sounded so fine. I used it with gusto for at least three months before some sixth-grader finally explained what it meant. After that, my friends and I whispered it behind the coat rack at school and shouted it down at the river bank. We believed that the sixth-graders had made it up and that no girl had ever heard it, because it was for men only...
With disenchantment and a little pride I eventually learned that kids and adults everywhere use the word among themselves. I read it in books, too, usually the kind we bought at the bus station. I heard later that even Presidents use it. That was okay, though, because it was still the coveted property of all us men. Men have used "fuck" at least since Elizabethan times, passing it from mouth to mouth through the generations as the last word in verbal virility. So what if a woman or prude challenged one's masculinity? A man could always take refuge...
According to Moriarty, a maintenance man on the third floor of the building heard the fire alarm go off at about 4:30 a.m. yesterday. He called the Harvard police, and then looked for the fire. He and the Cambridge police arrived at the site of the fire at approximately the same time...
WILLIAM STYRON came to Winthrop House the evening of the bust. He said he had spent the whole day traveling, he had only heard radio news summaries, he wanted to know what was happening on campus. Nevertheless, the conversation turned almost immediately to The Confessions of Nat Turner, and it stayed there until Styron left...
...reliable memoirs published thirty years after Turner's death. Why did Styron push Nat's African ancestry back a generation? He had to account for white women are possible--look at the sociological evidence; Styron points to other slave revolts. Styron's voice adds an edge, he had heard all these questions before, he has answered them before...