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...Jewish tailor from Russia, he burned as a youth with the need to compensate for his own lack of power. "I never thought of walking on the grass," he recalls, "until I saw a sign saying 'Keep off the grass.' Then I would stomp all over it." He studied archaeology at the University of Chicago, but what really excited him was spending a summer helping dissident miners in their revolt against John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers. Later he wrote a biography of Lewis, who became a close friend and mentor. After graduation, he received his first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Radical Saul Alinsky: Prophet of Power to the People | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

...dressing rooms. Hart and I go downstairs to watch Tech and its coach, Bob Martell, with whom both Hart and I have had disagreements, hurry by. There's Kenny Cusack, number five; and Freddy, Freddy Ahern, the star, number six: Jimmy Riley, Chucky Carrigan. Dee Conroy, all of them stomp by their mouths set, walking up the passageway and Conroy, the goalie, steps onto the ice and the Tech stands explode...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: 'Hey Riley! Hey Riley you bum! | 2/7/1970 | See Source »

...played what I call barn-yard basketball tonight," said coach Bob Harrison after the contest. I mean that through the middle of the game we just traded baskets with them. When you get ahead of a team like we did, that's the time you've got to stomp them," he explained...

Author: By Jonathan P. Carlson, | Title: Basketball Team Coasts To Win Against Amherst | 12/15/1969 | See Source »

Posterity moves feverishly fast these days, and Hair has not been slow to acquire feeble disciples, September's Salvation and now November's Stomp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Young Fossils | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

These one-word titles betray a poverty of dramatic invention. Stomp's cast is energetic, visibly sincere and hopelessly amateurish. The show's ingredients come in the familiar Dropout Kit-anti-Viet Nam, pro-pot, anti-haircuts, pro-four-letter words. The saddest trouble with so many of "the kids" is that they have become such conformist old fossils while scarcely out of their teens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Young Fossils | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

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