Word: loiter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...IRONWORKERS don't write books. Everyone is very eager for workers to do so, of course. Upper-middle-class writers take "sabbaticals" to soil their hands and find out what it's really like; reporters loiter nervously in bars in Queens waiting for something to be said so they can sneak outside and put it in their notebooks; sociologists write about it from the outside. But except for verbal records like those collected by Studs Terkel, or stuff like Nate Shaw's All God's Dangers, you just can't get no genuine working-class lit in the U.S.A...
Under loannidis' cold eye, life has become even more repressive than under the harshest days of Papadopoulos' rule. Students are harassed by police, who constantly loiter on campuses and are suspected of having informers in the classrooms. The right-wing newspaper Vradyni, Athens' major evening journal, has been shut down for criticizing the government. Koumkan, a rummylike game adored by Greek housewives, is forbidden as degenerate; after a brief revival under Papadopoulos, the music of Marxist Composer Mikis Theodorakis is once more discouraged, as singers are told, "for your own good." The possibility that elections...
Brigham's is more famous for the "townies" who loiter in front of the store than for its ice cream. But the ice cream is good and cheaper than Bailey's and Baskin-Robbins. The store is closed while it is being re-decorated red, white and blue. For you Mother's Day types, Brigham's also sells high-quality candy...