Word: durn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...houses, they tell us, have a purpose, which is not without its threatening aspect. They are a "community of learning." Durn tootin'. It's their sneaky way of packing the tutors and other helpful types in so close you can't breathe. The teacher-student ratio around here is 1 to 7, and the way to milk the most out of the ratio is to stack tutors and students in the same entries, like wildcats in a laundry bag. People think I run up and down stairs because I'm busy. Busy, hell. My tutor lives between...
When I read 'em, I jump up, I did, an' durn near swaller'd my quid o' baccy. Seems like them college fellers has it in real bar fer Joe M'Carthy, 'Course, when I think o' some o' th' things Joe says 'bout Pussy an' commie-coodlin' at Harvard, can't say as I blame 'em. An' th' way th' Sen'tor wuz feudin' with thet army feller (heard that one over in th' ray-dee-o), I kin git pretty damn well het up m'self...
Included in this collection are songs from "Oklahoma!" "South Pacific," "Carmen Jones," and the unfortunate "Allegro." There are also songs from "Show Boat" and some written for movies, as well as unpublished lyrics. All of them show the same twinkling golly-durn humor and disarming command of cliches. The few unfamiliar lyrics in the book cannot compare with those of familiar melody, which proves the power of interdependence. One outstanding thing about most Rodgers and Hammerstein songs is that on first hearing they sound familiar, as if they had been in the air or in your own head for some...