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Many people still think of Pittsburgh that way, but the fact is, this old coal town from the "heartland" ain't what it used...
...culture of the soil is the best and most sensitive of vocations." Tate was one of the few to own, briefly, a genuine farm, Ben's Folly, honestly named for the brother who financed it. A hired hand delivered the final word on Farmer Tate: "Mr. Tate, he ain't much of a hand with...
...when he noticed "Too many faces that are/ Not just like mine." Around the corner. Down the block. Next door. Think what their front yards will look like. Imagine the kind of music they will play. You can understand the singer's feelings when he stubbornly insists: "I ain't moving out for no Carol and Bob/ The inner city is too close to my job." You may admire the vehemence of his stand even as you sense its moral blindness and recognize its hopelessness, just as the singer does when he moans, "There goes the neighborhood...
...know that ain't allowed...
Last month Tom Winship, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, chastised his colleagues because the campaign "ain't no box office hit, and the press deserves some of the blame. By and large, we are letting the candidates set the agenda." Winship repeated the familiar self-reproach that newspapers weren't raising significant issues. To which Paula Hawkins, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Florida, answers: "You never win an election on issues. The only people who want to be specific are editors and journalists. The people out there are tired of someone...