Word: mercerizing
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...with his claims to be a doomed romantic hero. Thinking back on the girl in Chattanooga, he remarks, "Surely no life was ever so quickly and completely transformed by love as mine was." Yet his only visible passion is self-absorption. He cannot even muster much interest in Alex Mercer, "my closest friend there in Memphis." He admits several times his inability to remember just how many children Alex and his wife possess...
...play Rimsky-Korsakov to Ellington's Mussorgsky. Ellington's original libretto was recast by George C. Wolfe, the tunes were fitted with new words by George David Weiss, and the score was reworked by Conductor (and sometime Ellington collaborator) Maurice Peress under the supervision of the composer's son Mercer. The trick was to minimize the book's implausibilities while making the most of the score's seductive melodies...
...roughly two-thirds and was holding at around 500. Student activities had been slashed to nothing. The newspaper was gone. The library--whose special collections hold not only the works of DuBois but those of celebrated Black Achievers William Dawson, Marcus Garvey, W.C. Handy, Charles S. Johnson, John Mercer Langston, Aaron Douglas, Langston Hughes--was stretched so thin that in the periodicals section you would be lucky to find a well-worn Ebony and a month-old newsmagazine that someone had snatched from a dentist's office...
...Western Pennsylvania is a football factory. The program was intense and highly developed," Tarczy says. "When I played freshman football here [at Harvard], I was shocked at the laid-back attitude compared to Mercer...
Football is the sport at Mercer--the school doesn't have soccer, lacrosse or baseball teams. And for entertainment on weekends, the residents of this small town had one choice: high school football...