Word: thug
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Scholz took care to spread his political insult as far as pos sible; Weimar inflation is symbolized by the cretinous child, snot-nosed and snaggletoothed, blowing up a live frog by means of a straw stuck in its anus. In the end, one would need to be half a thug to be politically swayed by such an image...
...agree with LeRoy Collins (Crimson 16 May) that the assault on a Harvard student by the non-Harvard "thug" at Tommy's Lunch last Saturday was reprehensible, and I admire the courage of the second Harvard student who intervened to defend the first. What I still don't understand, after hearing several accounts of the incident, is why the anger, indignation, sense of the need for action now, that people present felt at the time, did not result in a simple call to the Harvard police as soon as it became apparent (which must have been very early on) that...
...sitting in Tommy's when I noticed a couple of tough-looking white people evidently not students, harassing a gay Harvard student (I'll call him D) and his friends. Next I watched one of the thugs grab D by the collar and threaten to beat him up. At that point a Black Harvard student (E) came to D's aid and tried to usher the thug out of Tommy's. Push came to shove and a genuine brawl broke out. E was aided by an Adams House tutor and an employee of Tommy...
...legitimized the protest, because America was tired of it all. Though Viorst never sees the depth of the dehumanization in America that throttled the Movement and killed it in the end. Fire in the Streets is saved by its heroes, who identify the antagonist of the Movement, the thug who aroused the civil rights movement, the assassin who cut them all down, and who lives today. Allen Ginsberg found the villain--the cause and effect--that Viorst gropes...