Word: bellowings
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Rosy Glow. The bull was still scraggly, unsteady on his feet, not quite sure whether he was going to bellow or belch. Though still young enough to be scared by any wisp of bad news that came floating along, he was learning slowly-and, most important of all, putting on a little weight every week. Almost everyone admitted he was a pretty cute trick...
...people who love the opera for itself . . . object to the sneering and leering of those who choose (shall I say to be charitable) to be so damn superior. . . . The singers do not "snort and bellow!" If they did they would find themselves out of a job-but quickly! And one does not attend the opera to see acting. Get that straight! One goes to hear . . . the ecstasy of the human soul in song...
John Christopher Kehoe likes to rear back in his wheel chair and bellow: "Want to see my horns? I've got them. I fight chickens, you know. I'm proud of it-keeps me alive." Last week, he was wheeled into a pagoda-shaped, whitewashed building outside Orlando, Fla. and sat, grim and lordly (in a pit-side box built specially for him and his wheel chair). John Kehoe's hand trembled as one of his game cocks, a fierce looking grey muff, was brought into the pit, weighed and made ready for battle...
...stories of the year were perhaps V. S. Pritchett's It May Never Happen and J. F. Powers' sketches of Catholic clergy in Prince of Darkness. Lionel Trilling's The Middle of the Journey was a thoughtful but disappointing study of New York liberal intellectuals. Saul Bellow's The Victim, for the most part a well-controlled blend of realism and parable, was the year's most intelligent study of the Jew in U.S. society. Bellow's method recalled-without aping-that of the Czech genius, Franz Kafka...
...firm hand of the Law has been reaching into the Yard, clutching victims under cover of darkness. One of the unfortunates in Holworthy took refuge under his bed when, after a thunderous knock on the door, a bellow outside demanded "Open up in the name...