Word: salooner
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...Japan's salarymen were once revered as modern-day economic samurai. Today they're like washed-up gunslingers mocked by everyone in the saloon. The jokes at their expense are bad enough: they wear bad suits and smelly socks, their hair is gunky with oil, they behave like drunken buffoons. But cruel jokes are just the start of their torment. The lifetime employment system is over, with unemployment now hitting a 50-year high of 5.3%. And so many middle-aged men have been attacked by teenage boys that police have created a new crime classification: oyaji gari, or geezer...
...Michael Skakel trial began two and a half weeks ago, his siblings - Stephen, Julie, and Rushton Jr. - have steadfastly supported their brother, accused of murdering their 15-year-old neighbor, Martha Moxley, in 1975 outside her Greenwich home. The group, which each day eats lunch at a local saloon-style restaurant and never speaks to the press, has created a kind of protective, mental barrier between Michael and his accusers, in particular the Moxley family, which sits in the courtroom just a few yards away...
...shadows around the family tree, the one cast by Joseph P. Kennedy is the most paradoxical. The son of an Irish saloon keeper, Joe was driven to succeed in Wasp America. He was a master of manipulation, in both business and public relations. "You would be surprised," he wrote to Jack, "how a book that really makes the grade with high-class people stands you in good stead for years to come." And so in 1940, Joe enlisted his friend Arthur Krock, a columnist for the New York Times, to edit Jack's senior thesis from Harvard into a book...
...euphemized for white folks by Billy Haley, ushered in what became known as rock ?n roll. An artistic and commercial restlessness sent agreeable tremors through the industry. As Leiber and Stoller could simultaneously produce the Coasters and the Drifters, a performer like Darin could quickly switch from rocker to saloon singer...
...mysterious, grassroots spread of the tale of John Henry, who may have died in the early 1870s but who is as impossible to identify historically as Odysseus or Robin Hood. As one character notes, "The Ballad of John Henry has picked up freight from every work camp, wharf and saloon in this land; its route is wherever men work and live, and now its cars brim with what the men have hoisted aboard, their passions and dreams...