Word: sextons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than ours." Then comes the confusion of return to a changed world. As Psychiatrist Tausend expresses it, a returning prisoner is "like a man coming out of a dark room." By way of illustration, Iris Powers, chairman of a P.O.W.-M.I.A. committee, recounts the experience of Army Sergeant John Sexton. Released by the Viet Cong in 1971, Sexton had never heard of Women's Lib, miniskirts or unisex. "When he went into a shop for some clothes and saw a girl buying from the same rack-it was a unisex shop, and she was buying pants with a zipper...
...With this flourish, Ralph Ginzburg, self-publicist supreme, informed the world that he had just been paroled after eight months of a three-year sentence for sending obscene material through the mail. Actually, Allenwood Prison camp was not all that bad-Ginzburg even served as a sexton at the prison church-but it was all very depressing. "I felt psychically castrated. I lost 30 lbs. I spent plenty of nights weeping into my pillow." Now liberated and dry-eyed, Ginzburg vowed to reopen his case. "My reputation has been besmirched," said he. "I will be vindicated...
...three competitors that previously carved up the Long Island Sunday field among them: the New York Daily News, Long Island Press and New York Times. One year in the planning, and manned by a separate staff of 200, Sunday Newsday is seen by Assistant to the Editor William Sexton as a logical service for Newsday's regular readers: "Why should they have to buy an out-of-town paper on Sunday...
...other celebrities, dead or alive, include Eugene Ionesco, Nobel Poet Miguel Asturias, Federico García Lorca, Donald Barthelme, Willie Morris, R.F. Delderfield, Anne Sexton, Christina Rossetti, Ernest Gaines and Nathaniel Benchley. Some of their juvenile works are included below...
Although racism on the part of the white majority is exaggerated, (in the words of Brendon Sexton, a contributor to The White Majority, "Big factories are probably the most integrated work-places in society"), it is still present. But it is present as a result of social-economic conditions. Scapegoating gives a perverted sense of status and meaning to the lives of many steel-workers. In addition, the often tenuous economic position of the white majority is thought to be threatened by black advances. It is easier to direct alienation against what seems to be a visible threat than...