Word: glocca
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...late on election night, the suits are up in their suites, brooding and trying to look confident, waiting for the Glocca Morra vote to roll in and save them, and Jesse is strutting tall turkey at his campaign headquarters at the racetrack, looking like everyone's nightmare of a brother-in-law, shaking his big fist, yelling, "We shocked the world!" and comparing himself to Muhammad Ali and the U.S. Olympic hockey team of 1980 that beat the Russians. All across Minnesota, the quiet, decent people who believe in Good Government and Working Together to Resolve Differences are leaning forward...
This is not realistic fiction; it's Glocca Morra with a boarded-up main street. Or maybe Yoknapatawpha lite. At its thinnest it seems more jokey than funny. Occasionally, it threatens to become patronizing. Most of the time it works, however, not so much because the author keeps things stirred up but because he persuades the reader to share his great, openhearted fondness for his ridiculous characters. A compact is signed, Russo saying something like, "O.K., yeah, Sully's being a bit of a jerk, but watch what he's going to do now . . ." Or, "Did you meet Vera...
Died. Ella Logan, 56, diminutive, burry-voiced Scottish lass who rose to stardom in the 1947 production of Finian's Rainbow; of cancer; in Burlingame, Calif. Broadway lit up the instant Ella sang How Are Things in Glocca Morra?, but success was a long time coming-32 years-from the day she toddled on to a Paisley, Scotland, stage to pipe Roamin' in the Gloamin' at the age of two. Besides Finian, she did Sons o' Fun and George White's Scandals, then went on to movies and TV until her semi-retirement...
...this isn't love, there's no Glocca Morra...
...Jamb is strangely drawn into the curious life of this Utopian haven where time seems to have stopped just before the Industrial Revolution, and where in effect it stands still for two weeks every year (the no man's time of the title). The inhabitants of this intellectualized Glocca Morra all work at handicrafts, and their fundamentalismcum-science theology seems to. be a mixture of Billy Graham and Albert Einstein. Bruno himself turns out to be a mystical exponent of this theology. He claims to remember all of human history as if it were his biography, and he preaches...