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...conditioning. "Hmmm," say de Lawd again, "De old Piety Test has got to go. Wid de permission of de Boa'd, ah'd like to pass a miracle. Dis is gwine be a restricting miracle on de Piety Test Rules, Miracle I, Section fifty-nine: 'Salvation by piety, dat is our aim.' Let de clause now read: 'Salvation by piety and extra-curricular activities, dat is our aim.' Ah'm gwine to throw a little lightnin bolt now to cleah up de red tape...
...fourth bell--the one Saradjeff considered too close in tone to the third to belong with the others--does not hang in Lowell with the set. Instead it was placed in the Business School tower, where it strikes electrically for the change of classes. Dat- ing from about 1790, it is the oldest of the 18. With winged cherubs' heads deliciately inscribed around the should, the B-School's bell is also considered the most handsome...
...desire to learn. Whatever wit they had, they directed mostly to thinking up excuses for being late ("I was dreamin' about ya, Mrs. Beal, an I didn' wanna wake up"), and finding ways to resist vocabulary drill ("So who cares? I say a woid like dat an all my frens laugh at me. Nobody know what dat woid means"). Almost every class had its sullen and defiant pupils who would yawn, lounge, drum, stamp, and wander about at will. Whether they worked or not, they knew that the law would keep them in school. Nor did they hesitate...
...Campanella, oh, he'sa my boy, Oh, what a fella, dat mighty...
There are two short stories in this Advocate, both unpretentious and excellently written. Except for a few lines of mutually embarrassing dialect ("Da Jevvys don't want no one screwin' roun' wi dat pia-ano . . ."), Frederick Kimball's account of an artist in Jesuit clothing moves serenely to its well-ordained conclusion. Christopher Lasch's story of boy's despair before a more accomplished, less dependent companion never loses subtlety at the expense of clarity...