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Word: hobo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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HISTORY OF A NATION OF ONE by Jecon Gregory. 228 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World. $5.95. The barefoot, world wanderings of a 61 ft. English hobo painter. Not as pungent and pandemic as such recollected tales need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Week: The Literary Overflow | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...beginning this somewhat preposterous hobo rode the middle class rails. But as a student at Columbia in the middle '40s, he found that he could no longer groove along those rails. After precocious turns at turning on, dropping out, shipping out and even bugging out (into a mental asylum for eight months), Ginsberg drifted to San Francisco's North Beach in 1953. There he abandoned all vestigial attempts to play it straight. Instead, he decided to "cultivate my perceptions, cultivate the visionary thing in me. And to keep living with someone-maybe even a man -and explore relationships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Odd Man In: Allen Ginsberg in America | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

Steiger is talking to a young hobo (Robert Drivas), and before the boy's astonished eyes, the skin pictures come alive and involve him in stories of the world's future and his own death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Walking Nightmare | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

Tension between the two men keeps Blood Knot from being a mawkish paean to poverty. John Dullaghan, who played Morris off-Broadway, mumbles like a flat-car hobo that he was forced to come back to Zachariah from his guilt at trying to pass. With a frog-legged squat and a patchquilt beard he nags and cajoles Zachariah not to leave...

Author: By Ruth N. Glushein, | Title: The Blood Knot | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...revolutionary priests that the Cathollic Church in the U.S. has yet produced. And there is nothing very radical about their background. They grew up in Syracuse, the sons of a tough Irish railroad worker; their mother a gentle devout Catholic, was known as a soft touch for every passing hobo. Daniel, who entered the Jesuit order straight out of high school, is a poet and chaplain at Cornell University he favors turtleneck sweaters and admits to being a "hippie priest." Philip, an infantryman during World War II, was ordained in 1955 in the Josephite order, which principally serves Negro parishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clergy: The Berrigan Brothers: They Rob Draft Boards | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

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