Word: robber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graveyard, the blind girl finds social security. She also meets two human beings who, alone among New Hoosicers, seem wise and considerate: Old Repent, the tombstone cutter, and young Robber Jim, an illegitimate half-breed who inhabits the nearby city dump. When Lovey finds she can see again, and loves Jim at first sight, Jim knows instantly. With grandma's death, Lovey regains the capacity for grief. Outraged by her parents' glee during the sterile funeral service, Lovey tauntingly tells them she can see again ("Father, your hair is horrible"). Lovey's parents hardly listen...
James Russell Lowell to England and Hawthorne as consul in Liverpool. The Robber Barons, who were the modern Medici, imported European treasures by the boatload, but Henry Adams found America "mortgaged to the railways." Henry James fled to Europe, and in 1913 Ezra Pound gloomily wrote of America's artists: "O helpless few in my country, 0 remnant enslaved...
...call promised the big chance. The caller tipped him to "the biggest robbery pulled since the Brink's job"-the theft of $200,000 from a safe in Houston, some 200 miles to the east. The voice even gave Cook the address and automobile license number of the robber...
Civilian life, Sickles reasoned, was best conducted on the lines of a running skirmish. He got leave from his ministerial job to come home and tangle with Robber Baron Jay Gould over control of the Erie Railroad. Supported by immense fees from the Erie's British stockholders, Sickles marshaled his forces, led a cavalcade of carriages full of lawyers and stockholders and, flanked by squads of police, raided the Erie's plush headquarters and forced Gould to resign. In 1887 Sickles' father died, leaving him a fortune, and the general marked the event with a dinner...
...character displacement," it will mean that all existing philosphies will have to be rethought. Everyone knows that science determines the nature of the prevalent world view. In the eighteenth century Newton forced Alexander Pope to write in rhyming couplets, and in the nineteenth century Darwin caused the birth of Robber Barons and the death of Louis Agassiz. Now, once again (almost with the frequency of the Russians) science has changed its party line, leading one to suspect that it favors "struggle" theories in odd centuries and "harmony" theories in even ones. Scientists may enjoy the stimulation of constantly changing ideas...