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Everywhere, there are lessons in contrasts. In Room 212, Gloria Sheila McCart ney's fourth-graders sing "the gospel train is acomin' " and drown out the incessant scream of sirens from Alabama Avenue. The rosebushes planted outside were hacked to bits by vandals; but inside, preschoolers nurse acorns in paper cups and watch for signs of growth. This is a neighborhood where a child could get stabbed over a pair of sneakers; but the students of Malcolm X Elementary dress in uniform, the boys in white shirts and red ties, the girls in plaid jumpers. "If we don't hold...
...puts her on at the last minute with those classic words: "It's a chance in a million, but it just might work." Everything else is there too-the whiplash body English and frenetic tap routines, the hard-times songs about riches-to-rags and good-times-acomin', the Spanish-town song ("Do you remember those nights of splendor"), the train song ("Clickity-clackity-woo-woo") and the rain song ("Pitter-patter-what's-the-matter...
...morning when the jangling phone awakened a politician in Louisiana. "Hey," said a familiar voice, "time to get up−daylight is acomin'!" "Lordamighty!" cried the politician. "It's Earl Long−returned from the dead...
...Longs. An obvious possibility for Governor, he disclaims any intention of running, but admits that he might "be interested in other things somewhere down the road." It's only 5:30 in the morning of a Long political life−but, as Gillis himself might say, daylight is acomin...
...nine weeks Purple People Eater has sold 1,500,000 copies. As everybody within range of a radio knows, it is about a "one-eyed, one-horned" creature "acomin' out of the sky" to "get a job in a rock-'n'-roll band." Oklahoma-born Singer Wooley, 37, who has written hits such as Too Young to Tango and appeared in westerns (High Noon) as a badman, got his inspiration from a gag riddle posed by the child of a friend: "What has one eye, one horn, flies and eats people?" (Answer: a one-eyed, one-horned...