Word: brims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope. When you sing gospel you have the feeling there is a cure for what's wrong." Mahalia had the gift of making her audiences feel there was a cure too. She began her performance with a Bible reading ("to give me inner strength"), then just seemed to brim over with music. Shaking her head till the combs flew out of her hair, whacking her hands together or stretching her arms ecstatically over her head, she raised her creamy contralto in such Salvationist swingers as Just Over the Hill or I Will Move On Up a Little Higher. Last...
...plump, short, silver-haired fellow, Ismaël dresses as if he were 50 or younger, wearing a fashionable black turtleneck, red corduroy shirt, hound's-tooth sports jacket with velvet collar, and snap-brim hat. In Neufchátel-en-Bray (pop. 6,000), where he lives and works in an old folks' home, Ismaël now shrugs off the snickers that greet his name. He chuckles over the judge's decree himself and says: "Her decision was ridiculous. Do I have bestiality written all over my face? After all, I'm not different...
...Bertie Wooster has just escaped from the clutching hands of Madeline Bassett, Sir Watkyn's daughter, and is reflecting on the joys of freedom. "I've seldom had a sharper attack of euphoria," he tells Jeeves over the eggs and bacon. "I feel full to the brim of Vitamin B. Mind you, I don't know how long it will last. Too often it is when one feels fizziest that the storm clouds begin doing their stuff...
...similar in size to Reader's Digest. But in other ways it resembles no journal of the Western world-with the possible exception of Benjamin Franklin's old brainchild, Poor Richard's Almanac. Devoid of ads, news, politics religion, sex, its 108 pages brim with simplistic sermonettes, warm remembrances and fervent hopes. Texts, which seldom run over 500 words, are sprinkled with bland heads ("One-Man Production" "Dynamics for Survival"), beguiling sketches and bylines of the famous and the unknown...