Word: hobo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...analyzed the 1929 Depression: "Nobody is actually starving. The hoboes, for example, are better off than they have ever been. One hobo in New York got ten meals...
...John Beecher were a character actor instead of a poet, he could play all the best parts in a pageant of America past. He has the face for roles as a Confederate general, a turn-of-the-century president of Harvard, or even the most distinguished presence in the hobo jungle, the man everyone calls "Gentleman Jack...
...that theory." He seems compelled to explain that he leaped practically from the womb as a full-blown liberal and has never since been sullied by the errors of complacent conservatism. And as he inveighs his way along the road of life-chumming up with every hobo or sheepherder he encounters and detesting most churchmen, policemen and lawyers-a sad conclusion grows. It is all very well to be down on the sanctimonious likes of John Foster Dulles, J. Edgar Hoover and Francis Cardinal Spellman (his top three detestees). But Douglas, the longest-sitting Justice in the history...
...heralds of "participation," thirties sociologists emerge as our own often-dubious forebearers in their passion for authenticity and relevance in scholarship. They invaded the taxidance halls, the boxcars and hobo jungles, becoming, in their words, "as much a part of this social world as ethically possible...
...tighten your belt, turn up your collar," the veteran hobo tells the kid, "and you can be emperor of the North Pole." The kid, called Cigaret (Keith Carradine), is a blowhard spoiling to be top bum in the territory. He keeps pestering "A No.1" (Lee Marvin) for some tutoring on the fine points of jumping trains and dodging conductors.A No. 1 tosses a few nuggets of road wisdom to his would-be protégé, but saves his energies and talents for his epic battle with the sadistic conductor Shack (Ernest Borgnine), toughest train man on the tracks...