Word: filth
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There was more, but "Y" Educational Director William Kolodney dropped the curtain on Mailer, labeled the performance "a raw recital of filth." Cried Mailer: "An administrator is no judge of literature." Eagerly concurring, Kolodney noted that he had not been judging literature...
...night that shadows Harlem's filth and fear, two 1960 Ford station wagons raced north on the New York State Thruway toward Tarrytown and the comfortable hilltop home of James Arthur Vaus Jr., an ex-convict once known as a wiretapper for West Coast Gangster Mickey Cohen. From the 'cars sprang a group of boys representing two rival East Harlem street gangs, the Young Conceiteds and the Untouchables. They swaggered to the front door, where waited Vaus, 41, and his first lieutenant, a Puerto Rican named Piri Thomas. 32. who once served six years for shooting...
...declares, "There is no faith except deep knee bends." He runs off the stage, screaming "Alarm! Alarm!" He sneers, "Your inside wouldn't hold anything of mine." He taunts, "I'll lend you a sweat shirt." Finally, having come at the problem from every conceivable angle, and with pointless filth three feet deep on the stage, he snarls, "I hate...
...idea sprang up after Calcutta, when the ship lay heavy with the fresh impact of Asia. "Everything was so moving," recalls one officer. "The poverty, the filth, the sickness, the pressure of Communism." Soon the ship buzzed with a plan: send an Asian boy to college. The crew approved unanimously-as long as they could choose the lad personally and keep an eye on him in home port Pearl Harbor...
...assigned it to their 16-year-olds at Edison High School. The parents were not taken with Novelist Salinger's 16-year-old hero, a sensitive boy named Holden Caulfield who goes underground for 48 hours in Manhattan to escape insensitive grownups. The book, said they, had "filth on nearly every page." One four-letter word in particular made it "not fit to read." Their demand: fire the teacher...