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...young miner's lungs may be hearty and hale...
...wrestling with Oskar's stonecutting experiences in The Tin Drum, for example, Manheim finally gave up. "You've got to find a German-American stonecutter who can get the terms right in both languages," he wrote the publisher. The publisher did. Manheim made it through ex-Potash Miner Grass's scenes from Dog Years with the help of special dictionaries. But in translating Local Anaesthetic, Manheim had tremendous trouble with the highly technical language of dentistry used by Grass, who has made a study of the subject. "Many of the words," Manheim admits, "just weren...
...exactly say that the Loeb is the best place to hear them. While they are exquisitely rendered by John Miner's pit band below the main stage, the performers on the stage usually render them inaudibly or off-pitch or without style. And the production that surrounds the music is, far too often, more dead than alive...
...amazed at the range and depth of feeling evoked by the heavily Blues-oriented fiddling, which shares with the vocals the real core of the music. Playing fiddle with the Blue Grass Boys of today is Kenny Baker, like Bill a native of Kentucky and a former coal miner, whose musical soul is so in harmony with that of Monroe that the two maintain an almost unbearable spiritual communication on stage. Also featured with the group are Bill's son, James, on guitar, and Rual Yarbrough from Alabama, on banjo. One can listen hard and still hear only a fraction...
...election is held, the most likely candidate to oppose Boyle is Elmer Brown, 52, a disabled miner from Delbarton, W. Va., who had campaigned as vice president on the Yablonski ticket. Brown contended last week that because the election was now labeled a fraud, he should immediately be named to the presidency. There is no possibility of that. In fact, lacking a leader of Yablonski's dynamism, it is questionable -despite the furor in the union over the slayings-that the anti-Boyle faction can mount an effective campaign against the tough union boss...