Word: ezekiel
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Falconer is set in Falconer State Prison, undoubtedly inspired by Sing Sing, which is located near the author's house in Ossining, N.Y. Yet his hero remains undeniably Cheeverish. Ezekiel Farragut bears the burden of an old New England family, "the sort of people who claimed to be sustained by tradition, but who were in fact sustained by the much more robust pursuit of a workable improvisation, uninhibited by consistency." Translation: like the House of Lords or the German general staff, the Farraguts knew how to survive...
...Ezekiel has gone too far, however. He has struck and killed his brother with a poker. He is also a drug addict. The notion takes some getting used to: a 48-year-old professor of humanities on a methadone maintenance program in a prison where he is serving ten years for fratricide. That is just the beginning. There are Farragut's neighbors in cell block F, with names like Chicken No. 2, Bumpo, the Stone, the Cuckold, Ransome and Tennis, who on the outside was Lloyd Haversham Jr., two-time winner of the Spartanburg doubles. His crime...
...hold an open-air meeting, with shade trees shielding the congregation from the blazing southern sun. But it was raining, so he had to pack the worshipers into the chapel, while about 400 more clustered in the rain at the doors and windows. Then, as Rankin orated on Ezekiel's vision of the dry bones, the mixed crowd of whites and blacks began moaning and crying to God for mercy, some kneeling, some falling on their faces. Rankin repeatedly begged his listeners to compose themselves, but his words were drowned...
...Jackson victory is a particular testament to his campaign manager, Bill Ezekiel, who used his large campaign budget to flood Boston with video-tape machines carrying Jackson speeches yesterday," he added...
...through all 98 years of Russell's life: from his miserably unhappy childhood spent in the morbid solitude of his grandmother's house ("She would call me by mistake the names of people who were dead") to his final years as the thundering, latter-day Ezekiel of the nuclear disarmament movement. The result is a work that is more thorough than thoughtful...