Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...town is pitch black, the old. Cape houses warm against the biting wind. As you drive out toward the highway, you see no one, not a soul. The only signs of civilization are the warm yellow lights coming from some of the houses and, seen through a large window, the silver-white light of a television, broadcasting the news of the summer people to the winter people who really don't care; but it breaks the monotony...
...reason interpenetrate. His narrator-hero is a Spanish immigrant slaughterhouse worker who looks back on "seven years of sleepwalking from urinal to urinal. Seven years of unconsciousness, of being half asleep and idiotic and happy ... in this limbo of progressive idiocy . . . Mary's blue mantle hangs in the window of the antique shop and there is a glass eye that bleeds every Friday when actresses get divorced . . . but the fishermen no longer go to the Seine, because all they find at the end of their lines are sexless human corpses...
...contentions, very little has been done to integrate the black and white sections of the community. Buses are segregated, as are hotels, schools, and government departments. Interracial activities such as sports are prohibited. Until recently the signs on the doors read "No Dogs--No Africans" or "Africans use the Window." Once an African bought a tractor from such a store and, turning the trick, he demanded that the tractor be delivered to him through the window...
...poor 17-year-old student in Paris, Guillaume was enchanted by an African primitive statue in a laundry window. This led to a meeting with a fellow enthusiast, the poet and critic Apollinaire, who introduced him to the artists in Montparnasse, most of whom soon became his friends. Modigliani once swapped a painting for a cup of coffee...
...brother Erwin skipped town to avoid a draft call in 1918, declaring that they would not "fight against our kind." Erwin eventually surrendered, but Grover led the cops on a chase around the U.S. for a year and a half before he was found hiding inside a window seat in his mother's mansion. Sentenced to five years, he soon escaped, and this time fled to Germany, where he stayed until 1939, when he finally returned to serve his prison term...