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...Force JetStar from the special White House squadron touched down at San Isidro airbase, 9½ miles east of battle-torn Santo Domingo. In the city's rebel stronghold, one of Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deńó's leftist advisers brightened visibly at the news. "Ah," he asked eagerly, "Johnson has come...
Then, in the fall of 1956, came Elvis Presley with his flapping hair, three-inch sideburns, and gyrating hips. "Ah wa-ha-hunt yew-hoo, Ah nee-hee-heed yew-hoo," he sang, and millions of teenagers flipped...
...Lady Bird, Edie modulated her voice to a slow Pedernales drawl:'"I've been spending quite a lot of time in Washington," she began, "since Mr. Johnson and I became President." And how does she see her role now? "I want to say in all humility that ah made mah husband what he is today-rich." It was great. But was it good enough to get her a repeat of last March's dinner at the White House...
...Ah, wilderness were paradise onow...
...word "grazing" and for "wilderness" the words "Harvard Yard." My substitutions left the number of syllables and accents in these lines unchanged. This is about all that can be said for my pleasantry, but this much at least was true. Your version of my third line, however, runs "Ah, would that Harvard Yard were paradise now," and this not only adds two words and an extra metrical foot to the line but also (and here I speak) with all the pedantry at my command) changes Fitzgerald’s rather archaic "were." meaning "would be" in the apodosis...