Word: fingal
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...Barty Fingal, a stringy bit of town scum, and his pal Pelancey, a handsome but dim-witted giant, find a compromising letter in a jacket sent to Pelancey's dry-cleaning shop. They decide to blackmail the man who wrote it, and their scheme is so successful that the poor fellow commits suicide...
Prepared Destruction. From there on, the novel moves with accumulating speed. Ratty little Fingal begins to tremble for his skin. He has "gone too far into evil ... a climax towards which his whole life in its indolence and evil has been foolishly shaping." Pelancey is gnawed by deeper fears: his clumsy conscience eats at his heart. "I'm warning you, Barty," he says, "you can't get rid of it. It's done . . . Only thing to do is to put up with it, and say nothing...
...their fears unloose their tongues. Fingal and Pelancey are soon suspected by several people: Pelancey's clerk who overhears their quarrel; his devout cleaning girl, who drags the truth out of him and urges him to confess; Barty's shrewd old mother; and the dead man's former mistress...
...carefree years, a political thought apparently never entered his head. He was born into a wealthy family, composed 60 pieces before he was eleven, was famed throughout Europe before he was 20. He became a musical Marco Polo who brought back from Scotland a Scotch Symphony, from the Hebrides Fingal's Cave, from Italy an Italian Symphony. His merits as a composer have been argued for a century. If his capricious music was not always profound, his mastery of technique sometimes concealed the fact. He was an organist who made Europe aware of Johann Sebastian Bach, and his position...
Directed by Malcolm H. Holmes '28, the combined orchestra played several selections between the choralists' appearances. On the orchestras' program were Overture in C Major by Bach, the Minuet from Ravel's Sonatine, and Men-delssohn's Overture to Fingal's Cave...