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...alone that can delight me. His graceful eye it doth invite me, And when his tender arms enfold me, The blackest night doth turn today. Tame Coyotes. Beers's grandfather taught him to play the psaltery, but his real ambition was to be a concert violinist. He played with the St. Louis Philharmonic at 15, later graduated from Northwestern University as a music major. Only then, noting among other things that he was one of the world's few psaltery players, did he realize "that my inherited knowledge of folklore was something extraordinary. Suddenly I felt an obligation...
...This made life pretty grim in the squalid East Harlem tenement in Manhattan where Papa, a Russian-Jewish immigrant tailor, had settled Mama and his eight kids. But somehow the Levensons never despaired about waging their own American Revolution in the fourth floor back. Particularly Mama. When things looked blackest, she would start a fire in the stove, put a pot of water on to boil, and say, "He who gave us teeth will give us bread...
...blackest of humor afflicts the consumer...
JONATHAN SWIFT, by Nigel Dennis. A clinical closeup of the most powerful ironist in British letters, who was also the blackest of all the great blackguards to lacerate man's conscience, until his own raging soul sank into stupor and lunacy...
...there aren't enough of us to go around." Some day soon, he says in his routine, "I expect to see a Hertz Rent-a-Negro." White employers, if they would hire Negroes at all, used to go for light-complexioned ones, he observes. "Now they want the blackest faces they can find, and they put them all up in the front of the office." Only the weather bureau, in his view, is behind the times. Gregory threatens to picket the place unless the next hurricane is named some thing like Beulah...