Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brian-Jon Swift, who sold about two pounds of marijuana and some LSD to a detective, first told the police who arrested him that he was a student at Harvard. Later he admitted that he merely takes night courses in the Harvard Extension program...
Police called the two pounds of marijuana confiscated directly from Swift "the largest amount ever found in a narcotics investigation in Vermont...
...destroys them. In On the Yard, this inescapable fact is driven home by the sadistic breaking of "Chilly Willy," a boss con who traffics in cigarettes and Benzedrine inhalers. Prison officials frame him in a homosexual plot, and he is shunted into the psychiatric ward. Though a swift, engrossing narrative in its own right, Braly's novel stands as a caustic indictment of the American penal system. From Dostoevsky to Genet, writers have used prison as an effective metaphor of the human condition. Braly strips away the literary conceits and makes life on the inside painfully real...
Writers Squad. To the show-business professionals who have watched him work, Hope's old self is a remarkable study in technique-the powerful pause, the swift switch in subject matter, bridged by "And I wanna tell you -. " or "And how about ..." Although he is an extraordinarily witty man offstage, his schedule requires the support of a squad of writers who whack out jokes literally by the thousands...
Capote's book was constructed cinematically, with swift cuts from the killers to the family to the police, flashbacks from the trial to the crime itself...