Word: throat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the Butcher. The other world was evoked first by Claude Brown, 28, a forceful, outspoken Negro who at age five saw his father slit a man's throat, later spent time in reform school after peddling heroin in his Harlem neighborhood. Now a Rutgers University law student, Brown is the author of the bestselling Manchild in the Promised Land, an account of a Harlem peopled by pimps, prostitutes and dope pushers. In such an environment, he told the Senators, men are emasculated not only by unemployment but also by the related fact that "Mamma is having sexual relationships...
...generally listless. "If you think about it, the immorality of it grabs you by the throat, and you want to run, to get it out of your system," says a white not long out of Europe. "But then it's a new day, and the hibiscus blazes on your stoop, the housemaid is singing a township song as she hangs out the clothes, and your children are tanner than ever and growing like trees. The anguish of South Africa seems a long way away...
Somewhat like the man in the sick joke who was recovering from radical throat surgery, and said it only hurt when he laughed, Leslie Fiedler, critic and novelist, only laughs when it hurts...
...callers and guests as "stupid," "jerk" or "meathead." An epileptic was once asked: "Just why do you think people should feel sorry for you?" Pyne's standard lines run from "Go gargle with razor blades" to "Take your teeth out, put 'em in backwards and bite your throat." Says Pyne of himself: "I'm not a nice guy, and I don't want...
...Honduras.) Once accepted, they spend four months at the University of Colorado's medical center. They put in time at the well-baby clinics and the screening and emergency clinics; they get basic training in child psychiatry, pediatric neurology, pediatric orthopedics, mental retardation, eye, ear, nose and throat complaints-all of the countless ills that young flesh is heir...