Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special tribe of New Yorkers who shun the workaday rat race by turning into moles. They doze at Grand Central, sleep on subways, and even rest in the Egyptian sarcophagi at the Metropolitan Museum. They are not exactly bums, but grey flannel grifters who sponge off friends, walk dogs, and ring Christmas bells as charity Santas...
...mention on Gleason's TV shows, along with such other neighborhood immortals as Duddy Duddelson, Crazy Guggenham, and Fatso Fogarty), remembers Jackie as "a big hero in the neighborhood-because of the pool, and also because he was so funny. He had a slouchy mannerism, a duck-waddling walk." Gleason's mother worked in a subway change booth and had small regard for her son's comic talents, and when Jackie brought down the house with his clowning in the P.S. 73 eighth-grade graduation play, he shouted at her from the stage: "I told...
...three, four, five. Five buttons. How many buttons does your telephone have?" More creative coloring is indicated by the picture captioned "THIS is MY COMPANY'S LUNCHROOM. Sometimes I walk through it and smile at the employees. 'Hello employees,' my smile says, 'I am one of you.' I never eat there...
...Africans, astronauts, Russians, rockets, Berlin and The Bomb. Choices begin earlier than ever, demand more decision than ever-and produce "wiser" students than ever. Their seeming "overcautiousness" is mostly a matter of thinking twice about everything in a time that demands it. "Modern American young people seem to walk on eggs more than any other generation in the 20th century," writes Sociologist Reuel Denney of the University of Chicago in Daedalus. "Their talent for the 'delayed reflex' may prove to be one of our main resources in the coming culture and politics of the nuclear...
...silence by introducing himself and perhaps guardedly adding what he hopes to get from the course. Then begin the rambling conversations that wind up with each member of the group dishing out and receiving scathing personal criticism. Inevitably, a few members of U.C.L.A.'s Sensitivity Training Groups walk out in anger, and on occasion women participants break down in tears. But the great majority-like Hal -manfully keep in mind that this is what they paid a $200 tuition fee to hear...