Word: spit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...higher taxes? Will Daughter be raped or robbed by a black-nationalist hoodlum or move in with a beaded, bearded white hippie? Will Junior's college career-the dividend of long years of saving-end on a picket line organized by anarchists who wave Viet Cong flags and spit on the Stars and Stripes that Dad fought for in World War II? In fact, blacks are by far the most frequent victims of black criminals, and there is no real political answer to youthful excess. Nonetheless, racial fear and generational disapprobation-on both sides-are potent forces...
...learned on the job and cannot be predicted by testing is Investigator Jay Dixon, who screens applicants for the Seattle Police Department. "Psychologists warn us that prejudice is learned," Dixon says. "Put a man in the central Negro area and after he's been called names and spit at, he'll be prejudiced." A City University of New York sociologist, Arthur Neiderhoifer, agrees that the very nature of a cop's duties tends to "transform him into an authoritarian agent of control." Neiderhoffer, a New York policeman for more than 20 years, writes in his book, Behind...
...force of a parable. His Everyman numbly but stubbornly seeks an honorable-a human-way to survive the "endless round that shrinks a man to something less than the size and the meaning of flying ants." Relentlessly staging a Job-like trial-by-humiliation, Armah daubs "the man" with spit, phlegm and sweat. Rot and stink-the look and smell of corruption-rise up from every page. It is a classmate, Koomson, who perfumes all the putrefaction with the sweet smell of his success as a self-serving official of the new regime...
According to the police, Jones, who had been selling The Daily World, a new Marxist paper, in front of the Harvard Coop, was blocking the sidewalk with his bundle of papers. When he was asked to move them, police say the young man spit at the officer and then ran. Curtis caught Jones, and while struggling with him, Bunting appeared and provoked arrest...
Inadmissible Evidence is also a feast of literacy. At his best, John Osborne can make words spit, sing, keen and dance. In this film, he has something to say and knows how to say it. Nicol Williamson does the rest with abrasive splendor; one crease in his troubled brow is an abyss of anguish...