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Freely Speaking. In Mercedes, Texas, showing the film Quo Vadis, the operator of the Wes-Mer Drive-In theater decided that a translation was necessary, on the marquee put "Doónde Vas" for his Mexican customers, "Where You All Goin' " for the Texans...
...Ridgepole. Even in those days, playing with her brothers, Grandma made a habit of excelling. "If they'd climb up a tree," she says, "I'd climb higher. They weren't goin' to outdo me. If they'd climb to the eaves of a house, I'd climb to the ridgepole...
...overriding fact of color was always there. Lamming remembers his pal Boy Blue explaining: "Just as I wus goin' to born the light went out." And Lamming himself testifies: "No black boy wanted to be white, but it was also true that no black boy liked the idea of being black. Brown skin was a satisfactory compromise . . . The best-looking girls in the village were those whose mothers had consorted with white men . . . One was known throughout the island-as the crystal sugar cake...
...Sentiment," said he, "don't mean a damn thing to me." Pleasanton was too small for Carl Hall. "People got their noses up at me," he complained. "They're jealous because I got money. I'll show 'em how money and brains can really get goin...
...extremely strong to justify exclusion. The editors might use a common standard: whether the risk involved is worth the possible value of such a person to the Review. If we knew that Lubell was not directed to infiltrate the Review for subversive purposes; if we knew he was not goin to use the experience he gains to harm the legal profession; we would then be the first to urge he not be isolated from influence merely because of his political views. But we cannot believe this, for he will not deny it under oath. Because of this, the risk...