Word: go
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...song he collected years ago from penitentiaries, when the wardens permitted him to visit with the prisoners and swap songs and stories. Terry and McGee rocked through I Don't Want No Cornbread and Molasses, straight out of a southern jail, and marched out with When the Saints Go Marching...
...care. The big old house is a crazily built warren of odd rooms and twisting corridors. For 80 years it has witnessed a variety of human disasters, and now it is deserted by its owners; the caretaking couple refuse to stay beyond 6 in the evening, and the townspeople go surly when it is even mentioned...
...indeed. There are thousands of 'its' one can do, but you won't think of them. You could drive down to Gloucester and catch a dolphin, and then put it on your mantle piece with an apple in its mouth. Or you could go to Franklin Park Zoo and watch the seals, they swim all night. But you won't, the House dances are much closer and everyone is going...
...Tell her something different for once, that you live in Bankok and go to the University of Thailand. You came to the game on your roommate's carrier pigeon; it was a pretty difficult trip, all in all, you could never keep the bird on its course. Then tell her that the Adriatic is beautiful at sunset, that the waves smell like honeysuckle and musk. Tell her something different for once...
...go to your party. You'll play another round of literary hopscotch--"I read Jude the Obscure last summer." "Oh, did you? I just finished Tom Jones, it's the first picaresque novel." And then you'll talk, in small attentive groups, of value judgments and semantic differences; or you'll remind each other that you have no identities yet, and speculate about Our Generation. Pull off each garment covering your souls, but don't worry, you can't escape the cliche. It's Saturday night, gentlemen, and I'm staying home to study...