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Jailhouse punk: made a homosexual in prison
...night." Reggie traces his color blindness to the atmosphere at home. "My father didn't, and still doesn't know what color is," says Jackson. "I grew up with white kids, played ball with them, went home with them, and more than one time beat up some punk trying to hurt them. I didn't know what prejudice was until I got to college and the football coach told me to stop dating white girls...
...much amused to see that The Crimson has again lived up to its high standards of Harvard journalism. Recalling the labeling of the H-R Republicans as "punk-ass Republicans," we now see The Crimson taking it upon itself to recommend that Mr. Richardson's invitation to speak on Class Day be withdrawn [Editorial, May 14]. That The Crimson should strain all bounds of common courtesy and decency in suggesting the withdrawal of an invitation (no matter to whom it was extended) reminds me of a very similar situation a few short months ago with the rescinding of the invitation...
Hughie, now being presented at the First Chicago Center in Chicago, is virtually a monologue, spoken like a Runyonesque incantation by Erie Smith (Ben Gazzara), a small-time hustler and horseplayer. Erie ("I was dragged up in Erie, P-A-some punk burg") returns early one morning in 1928 to his fleabag hotel, after a five-day binge. With a snappy-brim hat, stubble on his chin, a nearly empty pint in his pocket and a cigarette wheeze that makes his fits of laughter sound like emphysema, Erie has the jauntiness of a doomed sucker...
However, I was quite disturbed that some demonstrators complained about "punk-ass" Republicans, and that one taunted students leaving the Harvard club: "I can't stand seeing all these little Republicans running around...