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Benevolent Patriarch. The influence of The Bronx goes deeper in Meany than his reading tastes or his accent, which turns work into "woik" and oil into "erl." He is the benevolent patriarch of a large, Irish-Catholic family, much like the ones he knew while growing up and learning the trade of a plumber. Meany and his wife Eugenia ("Gena"), now 78, have three daughters and 13 grandchildren, all clustered in the Washington area. There is a lingering air of life in exile about the family...
...phone call and the 150 bus fare it is still alive and well in New Orleans, spoken by people of all classes and known as Irish Channel speech. Anyone willing to live in the berling heat of this town even for thoity minutes or sample ersters berled in erl will hear enough Brooklynese to last him for quite a while...
...began to write his masterwork in the German trenches in the Balkans, where he was serving out the last days of World War I. He sent it home in letters to his mother. Mustered out, Franz Rosenzweig finished Der Stern der Erlösung (The Star of Redemption) in February 1919, just six months after he started it; the book was published two years later in Frankfurt. Since then it has become one of the dominant works of Jewish thought in the 20th century, ranking with those of Martin Buber (I and Thou), a friend of Rosenzweig's. Thanks...
When the "morning after" rolls around, many an overachieving boozer prays for a hangover cure. Now there is a new answer to that prayer: Hangover Heaven. That is the name of a unique establishment opened in Atlanta by Chiropractor Erl P. Harris. In it, says Harris, any sufferer can cure his hangover for a mere $15, plus a routine $5 tip to an attending angel...
...individual speech patterns. He claimed to have recorded 60 distinct ways in which the word yes could be pronounced. He was also fascinated by bird calls, animal cries, and the whispering of leaves. Conversations between his dogs were carefully transcribed onto music paper. Czech Conductor Karel Ančerl, now music director of the Toronto Symphony, recalls the first time he saw Janáček: "I was returning home from a party with a few friends. A full moon lighted the park, and suddenly we saw a stocky man in a long overcoat talking to some birds...