Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...promptly sent the boy to work off some of his aggressions under the supervision of the school's janitor, washing windows, shoveling sidewalks, sweeping floors. The youth is now completing his junior year at Schuyler and learning to be an electrician in one of the school's shop courses. "We have no problem kids," says Becker confidently. "We just have kids with problems...
...philosophy dropout from San Francisco State with only two night-school courses in drawing; he is willing to admit that he has taken at least six trips, "before it was illegal, of course." His first foray into bizarre design was his own wedding invitation, worked out in a print shop of which he was co-owner. He followed this with a protest poster against the war in Viet Nam. Both were great hits with the local hippies ("They blew their minds," Wilson recalls), and soon he was being commissioned by rock-'n'-roll bands to do dance-concert...
...lead. Yugoslavia was first to slacken party control of industry, first to bow to the efficiencies of the profit system, first actively to seek competition in world markets. Now it is first in the Bloc again-this time with a hard-sell invitation to Western capital to set up shop in conjunction with state-owned Yugoslavian firms...
...understanding and their eons of illusion, come across best. The character sketches are deft and pleasing. The narrator says about his mother: "While she was thinking she wept a little, just so the thinking shouldn't go to waste." And about Sam Gold's lieutenant in the shop, Myrna, a great robust woman who tempts the boss into carnal misbehavior: "Two husbands had already died under her, and one had fled." If that isn't pure gold, it is at least pure Gold...
After class Blitman joins the happy throng headed for Mr. Bartley's Burger Cottage. Known as "the Spa," Bartley's combines the best qualities of a Ricky Nelson malt shop and a large brick oven. Cheery red and white signs tumble across two walls. There are too many to read, so don't try. They are all about hamburgers, anyway; Mr. Bartley's offers twenty different kinds, ranging from Hawaiian to Saute'ed Mushroom...