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...lends the slender script warmth and pathos. They receive scant help from the Perrys. In the original story, Belli, despite his name, is Jewish. Here he is simply "Russian." In the story, Miss O'Meaghan sits atop a gravestone and imitates Helen Morgan singing Don't Ever Leave Me-and is interrupted by a file of shocked Negro mourners. Here she is given a bland song (lyrics supplied by Eleanor Perry because rights to the original were prohibitively expensive) and is interrupted by shocked whites. The erosion of such fine details leaves the viewer with admiration for performances...
...hurts me-and I am sure I cannot explain the reasons to you if you do not feel the same hurt-to think that anyone would plead to this sensitive and conscience-ridden institution for amnesty if he meant to prick only its social conscience. To tell a professor that you occupied University Hall to free his life style is insulting and saddening. And, if you can't cope with the whole atmosphere of the place ("because they are trying to squeeze the life out of you")... you could leave...
...music," says Aretha Franklin, "is me-and I'm not sure what that is." Her confusion is understandable. At 25, she is still Aretha the Baptist minister's daughter, the former teenage gospel singer in her father's church in Detroit, the shy girl who regards the glamorous trappings of show business as "a game." She can overcome her nervousness at singing in public only by imagining that she is "just at a party, and the audience is just my friends...
After reading your cover story, "Inside the Viet Cong," I realize why: failure to understand the true nature of Hanoi's aims, tactics and atrocities. I don't change my opinions easily, but you have convinced me-and, it is to be hoped, many other skeptics-of the vital importance of America's continuing to sweat...
...tree, sweet as a cherry, what have I done to you?! I have left you all alone, my love, and how you must be crying there now, though you are such a brave girl and don't like to be a crybaby, my little one. . . . Let them all condemn me-and you condemn me as well, if that will make things easier for you, only do not reject me in your hearts, my children...