Word: womanizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...equal to rebuilding two-thirds of blitz-shattered London, and several of the impoverished ghettos are as big as medium-sized cities. Traffic is scarcely better; every day 3,500,000 people crowd into nine square miles of Manhattan south of Central Park, the equivalent of transporting every man, woman and child in Connecticut into Bridgeport and out again each day. From the visible evidence, the sanitation strike might still be on, and blowing papers and scattered heaps of filth testify to perhaps the most
...were behind, while 72% of the fourth grade lagged. The notion is often advanced that black parents do not care. The experience of Ocean Hill-Brownsville, as well as simple observation, says differently. Few can forget a demonstration last year in an East Harlem school where an elderly black woman, tears streaming down her face, cradled the head of her nine-year-old grandson and lamented, as if chanting a dirge: "He don't read! He don't read! He don't read...
Miss Blueye said she had received no money for her role, but that she thought Rocchino had been paid for expenses. She denied taking an active part in contacting or hiding Schober, but said that, during the rendezvous with him, she had telephoned a West German woman with the code words "Christian wants...
...attempts to participate in the American myth. He wants to be the superhero, cheered on by adoring crowds -if not on the football field, where his father had excelled, then as a famous writer. He sees himself conquering the citadel of New York, luxuriating in money and success. The woman of his dreams has breathtaking legs, a snub nose, a Vassar girl's sophistication and the idealistic innocence of Doris Day about to be seduced by none other than Freddy Exley of Watertown...
...stands up, he proves to be singularly inept. Drunkenly, he stumbles from one football weekend to the next. The games with their supermen provide the pitiful framework for his misspent manhood. He destroys his fledgling career in publicity. He finds that his dream girl personified the materialistic, castrating American woman. His weaknesses lead him to three stays in sanatoriums. Finally, he becomes a contemporary Oblomov, spending his nights and days on couches and beds, living in the marathon shadow world of television's cultural prefabrication, and talking...