Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...floor underneath the figures to emphasize the sexual inference under the issue of race in this country." There is even a constructed replica of a Harlem tenement's front stoop, complete with jumbled trash cans; from it issue the taped screams and shouts of a family killing a rat in their room...
Professor Kilson, the "rat-sniffer," is disgustingly reminiscent of Ralph Ellison's Dr. Bledose. He has, consciously or unconsciously, become the blackguard of the Harvard Faculty on the subject of Afro-American Studies...
Debtors' Prison. His contemporaries may well have felt they knew everything important about him. In fact, it was precisely the important things that they did not know. They did not know about the rat-ridden London warehouse that sagged over the Thames and was called Warren's Blacking Factory. At age twelve, Dickens was yanked from school and put to work there while his father and the rest of the family went into debtors' prison. So traumatic was his sense of shock and abandonment that although the experience lasted no more than five months, as a grown...
...demonstration broke up at 12:45 p.m., when the Radical Arts Troupe left for the Freshman Union. Both RAT skits were disrupted-the first when four YAF members sang a Christmas carol, and the second when Duane Jones '74-not one of the counter-demonstrators-removed the batteries from the SDS bullhorn...
...Treating Rat Bites. However unconventional they may be in dress and tone, the Stoners do not entirely rule out the traditional. Their Scoutmasters -mostly young Viet Nam veterans-do instruct them in camping and field survival. This month the troop will journey to Camp Alpine, N.J., to hike, camp and cook out. But it is still the allure of survival in the city that seems most attractive to the Stoners. "I dig the Stoners because they teach us how to live in the city," says Ricardo Reed, 14. "They teach us how to treat rat bites and stuff like that...