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...petering out towards a climax. The climax came when the man at the microphone asked us to join in the singing of "God Bless America." It was lousy not singing. I didn't hold back because of my crummy voice: I liked the song enough to compensate for vocal deficiencies. But I could not join these people in the spirit in which they sang. It would have been two different songs at once. I just looked around. I looked particularly at eyes. Old men's eyes, working men's eyes, occasional children's eyes...
After Hope finished, the throngs began to dwindle until only several thousand remained for the concluding "God Bless America...
...Horovitz did not choose to develop the play in that direction. Bobby is a hung-up Greenwich, Connecticut rat. Jebbie exclaims, "I gotta tell you kid, I'm hip to your problems (Greenwich and all that) because I get calls from two-hundred little madras-commuting-blond-Nazi-God-bless-America mice like you every week. I pulled my ass up from New Jersey. That's right. New Jersey. Not Newark either so don't get any smart ideas." Then follow jokes about Montclair, paranoia, penis-envy. On one hand, it must be cunning to hear rats talk this...
...that have no relationship to any living organism. We're talking about trying to preserve Alaska as it is, trying to make sure that our sons and daughters can enjoy it the way it is, and if you want to come up here and join us, then God bless you, come and join...
...Bless the good people of the City of Boston. God Bless high school hockey...