: I don't remember reading the term in any other book, but do
vaguely
: recall it's being employed by Arlo Guthrie on the Alice's
Restaurant
: record ...
"And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there
is, Group W's
where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the
army after
committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of
mean nasty ugly
looking people on the bench there. Mother-rapers.
Father-stabbers.
Father-rapers! Father-rapers sitting right there on the bench
next to
me!" The record was released in 1967, but he'd probably been
doing the
song for a while. Maybe he picked it up from Himes, but Arlo
Guthrie
doesn't seem like he'd read Himes.
Bill
-- William Denton <URL:http://www.vex.net/~buff/> Toronto, Ontario, Canada Caveat lector.
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