Word: neugeboren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Houghton Mifflin) by Jay Neugeboren, 28, an English instructor at Columbia, finds its anti-hero in black Brooklyn, but race is not his reason for being on the outside looking in. Mack Davis is a onetime All-America basketball star who got caught fixing games for the gamblers. Kicked off the court, Mack takes a job in a car wash ("I got the cleanest hands of any fixer around") and wears his cool like a man who couldn't care less. But he's crying on the inside, warming a cold old hope of playing with the pros...