Word: roading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First Zach gets a job in the gold mines--dehumanizing experience number one. Soon he loses that job, and in rapid succession he loses a few others--houseboy, gas station attendant, waiter, road crew--when the white employers become displeased with him. These contacts with Afrikaaners and Britishers--who insist on being called "Boss" or something equally demeaning--are typified in this encounter with the shrewish woman who hires, then summarily fires, Zach as her houseboy...
Written by two vagabond writers, Jack's Book is a collection of relevant interviews with the people who knew Kerouac from his Lowell childhood all the way to his disillusionment at Columbia University and subsequent travels on the road...
...puzzling parts of a personality and a mind which has become cliched by fame. He was a great storyteller, they said. He was wonderful and crazy, they said. He wrote great autobiographies and fathered the hippie generation, they said. Clearly, Kerouac started something in 1957 when On the Road was published. But the changes in American mores and literature that Kerouac inspired are due to his literary and human genius, not to wild and crazy stories. Holmes said it best: "Most books that come out are contained. That is, people say, 'I want to read that book.' But what happened...
...Israel is almost a peace treaty. We solved the problem for the peace treaty 98%. Now, imagine, it may be very soon, there is a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. It's a revolutionary change in the situation of the Middle East. I believe it is the proper road and I will continue...
King's opponent in the election is Francis W. Hatch, 53, a middle-of-the-road Republican whose nomination spared Bay State voters one unusual difficulty. He defeated Edward F. King, founder of an organization that wants to put a cap on state spending. If Hatch had lost, the November ballot would have featured Edward King vs. Edward King...