Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novel; back to Yale, then dropping out a second and last time to concentrate on his writing. The book was now 1,400 pages. "It started out as a boy's suicide note -- not that I was going to commit suicide, but I was very depressed. It was Jack London- type experiences in a Joycean style. Totally insane, with great passages of lyricism here and there. I thought it was the best thing since Rimbaud. And when Simon & Schuster rejected it, I gave up. I threw half the manuscript in the East River and said, 'My father is right...
Reagan's father Jack recalls the characters W.C. Fields liked to play. He sold shoes but grandly styled himself a "graduate practipedist," was known to tipple and shuttled his family to some 13 homes in five towns; Mother Nelle was a teetotaler and a devout Protestant churchgoer. In the Depression, the impoverished Jack and his older son Neil were rescued by the New Deal: they worked for the federal relief program. Thus Ronald Reagan, the great enemy of bureaucracy, observes Wills, "was cradled in the arms of 'govment...
...Muffin, or any cafe that draws devotees of the Bottomless Mug, is a Jack Kerouac kind of place. Personality, character, noise, life, odors, arguments...
Probably the most important win for the Crimson occured in the number seven slot when Jack Colbourne defeated the Diplomats' Nathainel Otis...
...Jack pulled out the most gusty performance," Harvard Assistant Coach Peter Dinneen said. "He handled the pressure well. After some questionable calls he kept his poise. It was a relief when...