Word: peddlers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Unhappily denied such attentions, The People is a rough draft of the novel it might have become. The year is 1870, and Yozip Bloom, a Russian immigrant and itinerant Jewish peddler, roams the Pacific Northwest. He is kidnaped by an Indian tribe that calls itself the People. For reasons not entirely clear, Yozip has been singled out as the spokesman, Yiddish-inflected English and all, who will defend the rights of the People against the perfidious, treaty- breaking whites...
...This observation on oblivion was prompted by something as mundane as a pair of gloves, which had been proffered tentatively by a short man wearing a cap and an aging leather jacket, with a faded green cotton bag slung over his shoulder like an Irish peddler. For the past 24 years, between Thanksgiving and Christmas, Michael Greenberg, 60, has been taking his bag of gloves to Manhattan's Bowery, long the haunt of the down-and-outs and the lost- weekenders, and wandering the gritty neighborhood looking for "the old, the reticent and the shy." When he finds one, like...
Probably the most ambitious perfume peddler is Herb Alpert, the trumpeter. He spent five years mixing his own curiosities in a lab at home before coming up with Listen, a floral scent for women. Muses Alpert: "A fragrance has an opening note, a treble, bass and midrange." His product, a sellout in California boutiques, may achieve volume as well...
...observation attributed to Winston Churchill about the second oldest profession is increasingly true of too many Congressmen: we have established what they are; now we are just haggling over price. The jumping-off point is $1,000, the maximum an influence peddler can give to any one candidate. But that is barely enough to be put on hold by a congressional aide. Says a weary lobbyist: "Imagine a maitre d' at a pretentious restaurant who thinks you stiffed him with a $20 bill. That's how a Congressman treats a lobbyist who can't do better than the legal limit...
...wider than this geographic separation is a gulf of distrust. White friends could not fathom why I wanted to go to Black areas. Neither could Blacks, once I got there. When I asked a Black street peddler to break a dollar for bus change, his boss warned him, "Don't give change to no white girl...