Word: makushak
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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...cubbyhole they found a strange-looking man with a heavy reddish beard and hair hanging down to his shoulders. His clothes were ragged; torn gloves dangled from his filthy hands; he wore long underwear and no trousers. In a matter-of-fact voice he explained that he was Paul Makushak, 33. For ten years, or maybe it was eleven, he said, he had been living in the cramped cubbyhole. His mother, Anna, had fed him by lowering food through the chimney on a clothesline. When his mother became sick and had to be taken to Greenpoint Hospital, she had asked...
Hiding was his own idea, Paul Makushak said: he had just not liked the way the world was going. Certainly no one should blame his mother. The police, who get used to strange things, looked hard at the small hideaway and sniffed. They were not sure Makushak had been living there for a decade, but someone had been living there messily for a long time...
...opening was a hole six by eight inches in the chimney that formed one wall; it was covered with a clean white cloth. The windowless room had electric lights, three radios, no chair. At about three feet below the ceiling a shelf cut down the head room so that Makushak, who is 6 ft. 1 in., could barely stand erect. The floor was cluttered with odds & ends of junk, cans of food, bottles of soda water, newspapers and books-Alexis Carrel's Man the Unknown, a Bible, dictionaries, a French grammar, textbooks on shorthand, mechanics and mathematics. Scraps...
...Paul Makushak had succeeded, as far as police could learn, in his desire to be alone. No one except his mother had known he was there. His father, Peter, had been told years ago to stay downstairs, and he had stayed, sleeping in the back of his jumbled first-floor tailor shop and dry-goods store. Peter Makushak rarely saw his wife and believed her story that their son had gone to Canada...
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