Word: harking
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...doting owner and an English professor of 16 years' service at Glassboro State College, is asked why on earth a man would want to buy his own press, his very own Chandler & Price, he squashes his soft hat down on his head, raises one finger in a hark-the-angel gesture, and proclaims: "The spirit of Gutenberg stood before me and said, 'Mitch...'" At such moments Mitch looks a bit like a road-company version of Rex Harrison (with glasses), called upon by God and central casting to reform a whole functionally illiterate world of Eliza Doolittles...
...author reads the 1,200-line war poem in the declamatory mode favored by many Russian poets, obviously savoring every line. Trochaic tetrameters and thumping end rhymes roll off his tongue. In an unexpectedly boyish baritone he interjects snatches of song, whispers, conversational asides and other special effects that hark back to his teen-age ambition to become an actor. The voice suits the poem. Prussian Nights represents the young Solzhenitsyn, still a decade away from the fine-tuned virtuosity of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and remoter still from the prodigious sweep of The Gulag Archipelago...
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...title "Hark, Hark, a Quark -Maybe" [May 2] was the mark of an aardvark who crawled in from a stark Ozark park and was really in the dark. As Professor Gell-Mann could tell you. Quark rhymes with torque, pork, stork, cork, fork and Sergeant O'Rourke of New York, New York...
...decision to see Holmes is Where the Hark Is should probably be based more on an anthropological interest than on a search for a musical. Because unless you're planning to take someone along to explain why the rest of the audience is rolling in the aisles at a joke about torts, Holmes is Where the Hark Is is an insiders' guide to the Law School--a very funny guide indeed, but unfortunately, it may be just a little more inside than most outsiders can take...