Word: newt
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...Good gracious me," exclaims Momma Winger. "What won't that onery boy do next!" With this kind of talk it is not very surprising that Momma Winger's sprouting twelve-year-old son Newt turns out to be a high-spirited youth who would rather poke curiously into an anthill than do the family chores. Predictably, too, Newt is a bright lad, and getting on for a strong one. He is chosen to give the speech at his graduation. Put in late in a basketball game, he emerges as a high scorer. He defeats the local bully...
Anyone who thinks he has read all this before will be right. But no one should therefore write off Gordon Parks's The Learning Tree as just another fictional recollection of an all-American boyhood. For Newt Winger is a Negro. His graduation ceremony is segregated, and the defeated bully (another Negro) is driven to his death by a white cop. His brother-in-law is a dangerous drunk who loads a shotgun whenever he gets loaded himself, and blazes away at the sky shouting "I'm gonna blow the ass off Jesus Christ, the long-legged white...
...time watching "light entertainment" shows than grade-school addicts, only 2% more time watching news, only 1% more time watching public affairs shows. To Steiner, the difference among educational groups lies "not in what they do, but how they feel about it." Essentially, the Harvard lawyer, or FCC Chairman Newt Minow, selects the same programs and spends as much prime time in front of his set as the kids from Kenosha, Wis. But Newton Minow-or so this survey implies-feels worse about...