Word: shit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constantly manipulating the world, around him, playing pranks, playing with words, putting people on. Even his famous Teddy-boy (juvenile delinquent) phrase was a bit of a put-on: "I was imitating Teds, pretending to be one...If I'd met a proper Ted I'd have been shit scared...
...know much about this guy Agnew," declared one Penn student walking through Harvard Sq. yesterday afternoon, "and I don't care to know much about him. Frankly I don't give a shit about Agnew, Nixon, and the Republican Party anymore...
TUESDAY, APRIL 23 -- Noon. At the sundial are 500 people ready to follow Mark Rudd (whom they don't particularly like because he always refers to President Kirk as "that shit-head"), into the Low Library administration building to conduct a demonstration against IDA and the gym and test Kirk's anti--indoor demonstration edict. There are around 100 counter-demonstrators. They are what Trustee Arthur Hays Sulzberger's newspaper refers to as "burly white youths" or "students of considerable athletic attainment"--jocks. Various deans and other father surrogates separate the two factions. Low Library is locked. For lack...
...Cohen gave a fairly good impressionistic report of my speech. However two errors, one of sound, one of sense, crept in, all in one paragraph. I stated that more people were taking drugs out of boredom with what the society gives them. I cited the mass media as throwing shit from a barrel at them in the form of entertainment. As this statement came out in your paper it could be interrpreted [sic] as meaning all people us [sic] drugs out of boredom. It would not do to leave you with this low impression of drug users or drugs...
...much as my talk took up the question of America's hypocritical pose of piety and purity, I have no choice but to protest the editorial alchemy of transforming shit into manure. It is this kind of little scratch that leads each person into the gangrene of corruption that so permeats [sic] our newspapers and our politics. Thank you. Leonard Glaser