Word: lad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, guilty of having switched, over the last generation, to a more educated corps of reporters, if only to keep up with the credentials and footwork of the holders of public office." It is, he adds, "one of the more enduring attractions of our business that any bright lad of proletarian or other origin can rid himself of the social and hierarchical pressures of our society to participate, as a journalist, in the political process of our country." (Frankel himself is a German-born naturalized citizen who was graduated from Columbia...
...make purchases. The total amount of time devoted by the nation to purchasing goods and food is estimated to be close to 30 billion hours a year. A Russian joke has someone asking a young boy where his father is. "He's a cosmonaut circling the moon," replies the lad. "And your mother?" "She's waiting in line at the butcher shop...
...conventions of the Western into a series of burlesque gags. Candice spends half her time trying to seduce the virginal Strauss-she delightedly rips off piece after piece of her disintegrating dress before eventually changing into a Raquel Welch 2000 Years B.C. wash cloth-only to resist the eager lad when he finally gets it up by demurring with a sincere, "Honus, tell me, do you really mean it?" Hell, lady, you don't go around shoving your boobs in the poor kid's face and then start preaching situation ethics...
...this month, he observed that Caesar Augustus was only 19 when he inherited the Roman Empire. "I will give power to youth when the time comes," said Duvalier, "because the future belongs to youth." By youth Papa Doc meant his only son, Jean-Claude, 19, a moonfaced, 200-lb. lad known as Baskethead to his classmates. A 1963 kidnap attempt on Jean-Claude so enraged his father that at least 100 persons, including 65 army officers, were executed. The legend persists that, at 13, the spoiled boy used a palace officer as a pistol target and shot him fatally...
...hardly news to Dickens specialists today that the blacking-factory episode, as Wilson puts it, "provided nearly a lifetime's impetus toward artistic creation." Wilson's scrutiny of the fierce personal drive that transformed an anonymous, victimized lad into the inimitable Boz opens the way to a shrewd, wide-ranging analysis of Dickens' life and work. The result is the best all-round book on the subject for the general reader in years. Absorbing, gracefully written, freshly thought out, it is, in addition, that rare hybrid, a coffee-table book with both brains and beauty. The glossy...