Word: scum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Band no longer pursues rivalries with other Ivy bands (the last Band riot was at the Dartmouth game in 1956), but they do have definite opinions of their counterparts. Cornell is purportedly a frustrated Big Ten band, Brown and Princeton are traditionally the filthiest bands, and Dartmouth is the scum of the Ivy League...
Each day, Detroit, Cleveland and 120 other municipalities fill Erie with 1.5 billion gallons of inadequately treated wastes, including nitrates and phosphates. These chemicals act as fertilizer for growths of algae that suck oxygen from the lower depths and rise to the surface as odoriferous green scum. Commercial and game fish-blue pike, whitefish, sturgeon, northern pike-have nearly vanished, yielding the waters to trash fish that need less oxygen. Weeds proliferate, turning water frontage into swamp. In short, Lake Erie is in danger of dying by suffocation...
Like Zero, If . . . has a loose patchwork of schoolboy fantasies for its plot. The film opens at the beginning of another term at an English boarding school. All is noise and confusion as the old boys greet each other and the new ones, called "scum," struggle to find their room assignments. Gradually, the focus narrows to a group of three upperclassmen (Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick) who are restless, cynical and chafing under the discipline of the house whips. They spend a lot of their time sneaking swigs of vodka and planning romantic acts of rebellion. After a particularly...
...retreats down a tunnel from a world of horsehair sofas and bullying grownups, Uncumber escapes onto the surface of the earth itself. Like Alice, she is both alarmed and enraptured by what she finds. Her first stunted blade of grass delights her. She sits entranced for hours, watching oily, scum-covered waves lapping at a blackened shore. The whole world-a hideous desert of slag heaps, ashpits, garbage, swamping flies and choking, poisonous vapors-holds for her an absorbing and mysterious fascination. Even the contaminated sea is infinitely more exciting, and more satisfying, than the blue waters, golden sands...
...Beat the anti-Soviets!' They tore the banners from our hands and beat Viktor Feinberg in the face until the blood flowed, also breaking some of his teeth. Pavel Litvinov was beaten on the face with a heavy case. They shouted, 'Get out of here, you scum!' We remained seated...