Word: pete
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...seemed obvious that no good could come out of such an Apalachin Jr. sort of meeting between the young toughs and the two ex-cons. But the session had the full backing of New York City's police. For "Big Jim" Vaus and "Pete'' Thomas were trying to prevent a "bop," or gang fight, that might have ended in another bloody teenage killing on East Harlem's dark streets...
...Vaus still had trouble winning the confidence of East Harlem's ganglads. And it was not really until he met tough Pete Thomas, who spoke the language of East Harlem as it can only be spoken by those who have been raised in its asphalt jungle, that Vaus made significant headway. After Vaus persuaded Thomas to work full time with Y.D.I., the organization became an important factor in East Harlem life. Some might suspect Vaus and Thomas, with their criminal backgrounds, of being a couple of Fagin types, but the doubters do not include the cops, educators or social...
...opponent in that match, who will off against the Crimson's Pete was Bill Voss. Voss is good, and most of the Army players, experience. The Crimson, on the other hand, using a team including five sopho and seven men who had never squash before coming to Harvard...
...that it isn't respectable to show one's enthusiasm for Pete Seeger; because he is a remarkably honest and original folk artist. He has done more than anyone to popularize (in the truest sense of a word that doesn't mean 'commercialize') folk music in this country, and his concerts are invariably exciting...
There are two good reasons for not enjoying Seeger's music, and both of them are pretty bad. Some people (who might simply be undergoing an antibody reaction to having heard the Weavers at Carnegie Hall several million times), feel that only Earl Scruggs and men like Pete Steele represent "authentic" folk music. Seeger's music is perhaps a little too much in the context of our times for them...