Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Victor). This is a first recording of a three-movement symphony finished soon after Three Places in New England and like it a Babel of musical quotations. The first theme, worked and reworked in the movement called An Elegy to Our Forefathers, is from Old Black Joe: "I'm coming, I'm coming...
...human condition; he also lacks his facility for creating a whole stageful of memorable characters. Styron's achievement is that his one towering figure dominates the entire book. But for both writers, the land is the natural arena for terror, and not since the lynching of Joe Christmas in Faulkner's Light in August has savagery been so harrowingly described. Nat's blood, like Joe's, is part of the American soil...
...moist and dusty rank in the shadows past the open door. "Red bar'l, massah. Dat's de bar'l fo' a gentleman, massah." When the desire to play the obsequious coon came over him, Hark's voice became so plump and sweet that it was downright unctuous. "Marse Joe, he save dat bar'l for de fines' gentlemens...
...both his wings can't play today, Munro could be in trouble. He could switch Lutz Hoeppner to one wing, but then would have to start an inexperienced sophomore at the other outside slot. If Azikiwe shows up lame, Mike Sicher would play right half and captain Joe Gould would move to the left side...
...lucked out in the third on a succession of weak rollers. Batting leadoff in the desperately rearranged Boston lineup. Joe Foy singled. Mike Andrews sacrificed him over to second and made it safe to first on an error. But then Yastrzemski whiffed...