Word: sidewalkers
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That night, about 75 of the demonstrators slept on the sidewalk, awaiting word whether the university would try to drop charges against the three prisoners, or whether the hearing would be moved up to the next day. City representatives had reportedly been trying to contact Justice of the Peace Jack Treadway, in whose court the case was scheduled to be heard, but Treadway could not be reached. Neither Treadway, nor the district attorney, Carol S. Vance, were expected to be amenable to any suggestions, whether from the mayor's office, or from the university, that charges be dropped at this...
When Jew meets Gentile in the U.S., it is not always a case of one shoving the other off the sidewalk. But such nasty little scuffles have high frequency in the books of Jerome Weidman, as in his 15th novel, Other People's Money. The hero, Victor Smith, is orphaned at three when his parents go down on the torpedoed Lusitania. Young Victor is installed in the luxurious Manhattan home of Walter Weld, his father's employer, where he is later joined by young Philip Brandwine, another orphan of a Weld employee. Remarkably, neither child seems to have...
...hippy as most people think of it. That's just a newspaper term, a label. I'm not a typical Haight-Ashbury resident, hanging around the city and drawing chalk pictures on the sidewalk. We used to be that way, though, two years ago when we weren't working. In one sense, though, we are hippies. This involves reshaping your head, being more outside the establishment than anti-establishment. It is a more positive thing than the militants at Berkeley, who bore me intensely...
...edge of Blackstone Street, running parallel to the line of pushcart fortifications, is a rickety row of retail meat shops, most of which are open six days a week. So, as you start down the Blackstone sidewalk, there are turnips to the left, genoa salami to the right. The meat shops go in for variety. Capicollo. Mortadella. Proscuttino. Pepperoni. Eight different kinds of salami, including carando milanese and d'annuzio. May we suggest some Bunker Hill Baloney? The butcher men whisper loudly like dark corner procurers. "Hey, buddy, you want some nice chops? How 'bout it? I got some nice...
...local dance. Their mothers will call the chaperon to make sure they have arrived, call again at 10 o'clock to make sure that the dance has concluded and the girls are coming home. Other groups will walk together for hours, transistor radios swinging close to the sidewalk. They go by younger friends with a nod and older, rat, boys with a toss of the head. Perhaps they will meet next week at a dance. No one but a colleege boy does much dating, and he dates girls from outside the North...