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...they were always accompanied by beatings with fists, slapping on the ears so hard that eardrums were ruptured. The guards looked for any little infraction so they could beat you. Our guard-we called him 'Magoo' because he looked like the cartoon character, all squinty-was vicious. He used to come in the cell about twice a week and beat John Brodak and me. Sometimes he'd beat us for no cause, just open the door, come in and knock us around...
...vulnerable, and tragically in love with the idea of a spontaneous revolution, they live out a morality of egoism to which even the petty cruelty of schoolchildren is preferable. There at least is a coherent ethics, compared to which Richmond's counterculture is a veritable jungle. The sexism is vicious, the community is haphazard, and the allegiance is nil. Still the author insists on romanticizing the squalor, to the extent where any of its exposure begins to look like the work of the reader. The sexism, in particular, was quite certainly not intended as such, and while I found...
...mortified to be a member of that white race, lest I be mistaken for the ignorant, vicious, crooked angry white that unfortunately is in the majority in the country...
...CONCERT BAND may be caught in a vicious cyle. It plays only one concert at Harvard each year, so there's not as much talk about it as there is about other Harvard music groups. Yet, at the present level of attendance, the band could hardly afford to put on more concerts and thus gain wider publicity. The group can play well enough to effectively help promote both music for symphonic band and modern music in general. It's very sad it's not better known...
Cusick said that the option of using EEAA funds for youth employment represents "a vicious shell game" and "a politically untenable choice for City government...