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Even back in West Virginia, where the family lived before coming to Indiana, says his mother, "everybody knowed he was a climber. He'd worry the life out of me goin' up on to some knoll and then riding a sapling down into the gulch." Reflecting on this one afternoon last week, while munching on a jelly sandwich Roger felt a little dissatisfied with himself. School had been out a week and the weather was warm, but he still hadn't "worked up some of his big ideas...
Ralph Blane's music and lyrics are only mediocre. One number, Goin' On a Hayride, stands out in my mind, but the rest are ordinary "hear 'em today, forget 'em tomorrow" tunes. The music seemed generally better than the maudlin lyrics, but in most cases the production numbers were well outside of the plot line...
...without delay." A generation later, a teamster who had struck it rich in Nevada passed a verdict on U.S. culture: "Ther arn't no chance for a gentleman to spend his coin in this country, an' so me an' Mrs. Bowers is goin' ter Yoorup...
...some thinking. Next Sunday, Sister Kay tunes in the Billy Graham hour on the hospital radio. Jim Tyler listens, and comes to a decision. "All my life," he drawls in the climactic scene, "I bin ridin' the wrong trail. I'm turnin' back. I'm goin' God's way-I think it's goin' to be a wonderful ride...
...meals"; a "sizzle" is a general term describing anyone from a creep to a showoff. In Chicago, last year's "D.D.T." (drop dead twice) is still fashionable; the dangling "but," sounded with rising inflection on the end of any declaration or question, is new there. Example: "Where you goin', but?" In Detroit, high school girls now talk of the "goofs we go with"; in San Francisco a nice guy is a "good head...