Word: dudeness
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Every time I go home these days, all these people keep calling me up all the time to play basketball. It makes no sense, even though I have to admit that it isn't really all these people--just Ed Thompson, and Meyer, and this dude I've disliked ever since we were both eight years old, and his younger brother, and this guy who used to think he was either Captain Scarlet or Matt Busby from the Beatles' White Album but never quite made up his mind which (though it took him only a week to decide he hated...
...Delores Taylor), a staunch advocate of nonviolence who takes a dim view of Billy's temper even as she makes good use of his muscle. In Trial, as in its predecessor, the townies are always hassling Jean and her freedom school-a dewy combination of Summerhill and a dude ranch the citizens think is the vanguard of the Red Menace...
Wherever the fault lies, whether with the coaching staff or with white football players themselves, the Harvard football program had better do something about its generally lily-white appearance. If it does not, there will be more brothers and sisters like the dude in Adams House who said at the beginning of the season that he hoped the varsity would lose because it did not do justice to the black talent it had ignored. Steve Williams...
...wish with all my country soul that the city dude who wrote in "The Gloomiest Outlook Yet" [May 27] "The one bright spot in the inflation picture is that wholesale farm had prices in April fell make an average of 3% . . ." had to try to make a living for just one year on a family-sized farm...
Davis' aristocratic background could hamper his political ambitions. "When you come from a middle-class bag, it's not easy to convince the masses that you're an allright dude," he admits. Sometimes he must choose between black solidarity and his own best judgment. Example: the county Democratic committee "had to endorse a black for the county commission even though there was a Jewish fellow who was the better candidate. If we blacks on the commission had taken the stump for the Jewish fellow, we would have been vilified as Uncle Toms...