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...Hush little bright line...
...year's glory in the World Series (see SPORT). Though a pot of doggerel in comparison to Poetess Moore's finest work, Piece was nonetheless a heartfelt exhortation and, according to Marianne, could even be warbled to the tune of an old folk song that sometimes begins, "Hush, li'l baby, don' say a word, mamma's gonna buy you a mockin'-bird ..." A piece from Piece: Take off the goat-horns, Dodgers, that egret/which two very fine base-stealers can offset./ You've got plenty: Jackie Robinson/and Campy and big Newk...
Perhaps the book's most interesting and significant part concerns what Hero Eliot likes best-his administrative work in a hush-hush atomic-energy project buzzing with top-drawer office politics. The anatomy of power excites Author Snow (himself a sometime physicist and civil servant) in the same way that the very rich fascinated Scott Fitzgerald, and he is at his best in scenes in which two or three top civil servants measure out other men's job futures in judicious mumbles. On this power ladder, Eliot represents the "new men," the non-U's in Nancy...
Game Refuge. In West Warwick, R.I., John Ondrasek Jr. drove his wife out of the house with a shoe, chased her into a neighbor's yard where she crawled under a car, drummed on the auto's fender with the shoe to Hush her out, recalled too late that the neighbor, who collared him for local police, was a state trooper...
...fellow Americans," concluded the President, "the kind of era I have described is possible." The great auditorium in San Francisco was hushed, and from that hush had come a voice that Americans of all faiths and factions could hear and understand, as rarely before, in the tumult and shouting of U.S. election years...