Word: ike
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last time I saw Ike was one year ago, almost to the day. We had grown up together. We skipped religious school together. We went to high school together. We hung out together. We weren't the closest, but we shared the same friends...
That August night, we found ourselves in the usual place, amid familiar company. As the summer of 1984 drew to a close, Ike and I sat sipping Michelobs, watching cable T.V., critiquing videos, and reminiscing in Rich's basement. Rich, Neil and Mike were also there, of course. Everything was as it always had been...
...year earlier, before we went away to college for the first time, we had gone out for a final celebration. That evening ended with the Rocky Horror Picture Show and a slightly buzzed Ike behind the wheel of his parents' Plymouth Volare (He had cracked up his own GTO a few months earlier. Miraculously, he had escaped injury, unless you count his father's wrath...
...local blacks were unable to capitalize on the opportunities, leaving many of the stores abandoned and boarded up. During the past five years, entrepreneurial Koreans have taken over about a third of the stores on 125th Street. Last October a ruckus began after a black man was evicted from Ike's grocery, owned by the Shin brothers. A handful of black activists began a boycott of Korean merchants that went on sporadically for a few months. Says Lloyd Williams, a neighborhood black leader: "The effort became to get all the Koreans out of the neighborhood...
There used to be a solid center that shamed the jesters and smothered the nonsense with dignity and a call to high ideals. Ike was in the White House. Sam Rayburn ran the House. Men like George Aiken and Richard Russell resided in the Senate. When they gathered to deal with critical issues they were not Republicans or Democrats or liberals or conservatives. They were men with a larger purpose than themselves. It seems too long a time since the likes of them...