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"[to Jim] Hey, you want to come home with me? I mean, there's nobody home at my house, and heck, I'm not tired. Are you? See, I don't have too many people I can talk to... If you want to come, we could talk, and in the morning we could have breakfast like my dad used to. Gee, if only you could have been my dad."
"Watch out about choosing your pals. You know what I mean? Don't let 'em choose you."
"Teenage terror torn from today's headlines"
"...and they both come from good families!"
"To Belong...and be loved."
"Jim Stark... a kid from a good family - what makes him tick... like a bomb?"
"The bad boy from a good family."
"James Dean - Jim Stark"
"Natalie Wood - Judy"
"Sal Mineo - John 'Plato' Crawford"
"Jim Backus - Frank Stark"
"Ann Doran - Mrs. Carol Stark"
"Corey Allen - Buzz Gunderson"
"William Hopper - Judy's Father"
"Rochelle Hudson - Judy's Mother"
"Dennis Hopper - Goon"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.