Word: lads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Paul's troubles begin when Lewis Miles, a young, mysterious asexual acidhead, jumps in front of Dorothy's car. She takes Lewis home as if he were a wounded bird. It turns out to be the first nice thing anyone ever did for the lad, and he responds by knocking off anyone who threatens Dorothy even slightly. Cleverly, mind you. No indictments or messy trials, just plausible suicides, auto accidents, and prop guns that turn out to be loaded...
...interviews with the headmaster, a Waugh refugee nicknamed Dr. Rabelais, are symptomatic. The man seems plunged in a "burrow of vagueness." As Rabelais drones on in a voice reminiscent of "old curtains," Jimmy feels "woofed more and more tightly into an endless tapestry." The poor lad cannot tell whether his questions are being answered, or even remember exactly what the questions were. For consolation he flicks mentally through colored-slide images of the post-World War II America that he thinks he misses...
...Dancer's Image) is welcome to his choice. As the most successful trainer and driver in U.S. harness racing, he has won $1,000,000 or more in purses during each of the past four seasons, and in the process produced a steady succession of champions: Su Mac Lad was 1962's Horse of the Year; Cardigan Bay, the wealthiest harness horse ever ($980,000 since 1959); Noble Victory, the two-year-old champion of 1965 and winner of 37 out of 54 races...
...overwhelmingly white, middle-class state with none of the substantial minority blocs that Kennedy has come to count on for support. For once, McCarthy forces out-organized and even outspent Kennedy's camp, but it was Kennedy who conveyed the giant's presence and McCarthy the shepherd lad...
Practicality comes easily to the son of an immigrant Estonian cobbler. As a child, Shapiro handled so many shoes for the Catholic fathers of St. Viator College that when the Jewish lad went there himself, he knew the faculty members not only by name but by feet. After getting a law degree from the University of Illinois in 1929, he set up practice in Kankakee, joined the Young Democrats, met Kerner, and won election in 1936 as Kankakee state's attorney despite the area's Republican preponderance. He convicted the state public-welfare director for neglect of duty...