Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teaches at New York State University's Urban Center in Brooklyn, learned firsthand about ghetto justice by spending an afternoon in court with his youthful tutor. "That damn judge," he said, "was handing down decisions he made before he ever saw the facts. It was like processing hamburger meat, just put it in the grinder." Tom Carey, of North Hennepin State Junior College in Minnesota, says of his one-month exposure to the streets: "I have been turned inside...
...professional progress is also impeded by his, and his creator's, strivings to bring home to each and every hapless character the wrong turnings in his past. One longs for Chandler's jaunty, corpse-chasing Philip Marlowe: "Murder-a-Day Marlowe, they call him. They have the meat wagon following him around to follow up the business he finds...
...sees himself as "a punk" and a sucker who has never got anything from a society filled with takers. Near by, the first flames of the fire flicker. Suddenly, he feels a compulsion to prove his manhood by defying the law and packing out 700 Ibs. of poached elk meat, despite or perhaps inspired by the fire...
...compared with the monstrous shame of modern times, with its "computers ticking, tapes and circuits and warheads, detonators, deaths, millions of deaths." Jack Kendriks, chief of the fire fighters, who at 39 feels that younger, better-educated men are catching up on him, helps Replogle escape with his poached meat, in a humanistic act of generosity from one defeated man to another...
...movement requires an austere and disciplined life. Members follow four rules: no sexual relations outside of marriage, no intoxicants (drugs, alcohol, coffee, or cigarettes), no gambling, and no gambling, and no meat-eating...