Word: manhoods
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...certainly are ordained. And so it was that I, who was reared as a naval officer, never came to serve in action, but look back on my single top-secret assignment as the raison d'être of the long years of training in my youth and early manhood. In truth, if only for a moment in time, I held history in the palm of my hand...
...indeed plan to run for mayor of New York next year, he admitted-on an existentialist ticket. The problem of juvenile delinquency would not be solved by disarming young hoods: "The knife to a juvenile delinquent is very meaningful. You see, it's his sword -his manhood." A better solution would be to hold an annual gangland jousting tournament in Central Park, "which would bring back the Middle Ages." When Wallace noticed the mouse on his cheekbone. Mailer grinned. "Yes." he chuckled, "I got into quite a scrape Saturday night...
...British Poet John Betjeman has unsuspected temerity. Although he has done nothing more significant in life than to farm a little, review books, write guides about the English countryside and turn out delightful light verse, Betjeman at 54 has published an autobiography of his boyhood and young manhood. What is more, he has written it in verse. At first glance, this might seem to be a supremely unnecessary exercise. In fact, it is a tour de force of considerable charm...
...government's sharpest critics. Writing to help support her two children by an early, unsuccessful marriage, the pretty young newshen in her column denounces governmental corruption, ridicules its foreign policies, champions women's rights, favors birth control, blames the Latins' concept of manhood for the evils of prostitution, campaigns against poverty, slums, alcoholism and juvenile delinquency. Naturally her column, entitled "Lo que los otros callan" (What others won't say), is read with a certain amount of disfavor by the regime. But what to do about...
...typically mad melange of musical low jinks. The evening started mildly enough with Round i, in which Cage and Pianist David Tudor sat at different pianos alternately plunking notes at up to 20-second intervals. Presently Dancer Merce Cunningham started undulating in symbolic suggestion of an embryo wriggling toward manhood. By Round 3, when Cage was thumping his piano stool with a rock, the restive audience began to jeer. The jeers grew in Round 4. as Cage and Tudor launched into a piano duet, playing chords with their elbows while assaulting the piano's innards with knives and pieces...