Word: excelsior
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...David Benway, 37, of Excelsior, Minn., a salesman for a mail-order printing house, voted for Barry Goldwater in 1964. But in 1968, he explains, "I was in Chicago during the Democratic Convention. I took three days off and wandered around the riot zones and listened to McCarthy. I became very despondent about the machine, the whole state of affairs. I started listening to the kids and to McCarthy...
...were doubly miffed last December when Nixon described Brazil, a military dictatorship but economically booming, as a model for Latin America. When the White House let it be known that Nixon would give Echeverria some moon rocks on his visit to the U.S. last week, Mexico City's Excelsior sniffed that a few rocks were hardly a substitute for a discussion of "grave problems...
...very good novella is crated like a cracked vase in this volume, padded between two undistinguished lesser fictions that serve only to give the book that solid $6.95 heft. The unfortunate excelsior stories, All My Bones and The Call, are summer-weight Southern gothic. in which the author follows the convention of this school by writing about the rural poor as if they were all dimwitted. The title work, Goat Songs, is something else. A series of erotic recollections links a man to his boyhood. The episodes are brief: a flicker of memory, a few moments of musing. Perceptions...
...idea was to retain the identity but to metamorphose it into a new image." So he added a telephone and rigged it to a recording of two girls chatting on the phone. His Girl Talk greets the visitor with snippets like "All I can remember is sitting in the Excelsior...
...Excelsior: "Together we must rise to ever higher and higher platitudes...