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...Peaceful People. In the 17th Century, Spanish friars and soldiers failed to convert the Lacandones, who still worship Mayan gods. Unlike some of their fierce, Christianized Indian neighbors, the Lacandones seldom fight, almost never commit murder. They moan and chant, burn incense of copal and rubber at the altars of jungle-grown Mayan cities 1,500 years old. In a cave near a blue, sacred lake lives an evil minor god. Two Lacandones, sick with fright, guided Miss Duby there. In the cave was an ancient stone idol; on the entrance were carved hieroglyphics. The last of the Mayans begged...
...paid much attention to Joan until she took time out last fall to have a baby. When she returned, the audience in general gave her the big hello. And the boys out front, perhaps partly to kid the Sinatrians, "began to moan and groan" over Joan. The antiphonal chorus bids fair to become a national pastime...
...Parade recordings, shipped to darkest New Guinea (complete with audience mooings over Joan), have moved jungle G.I.s to delighted imitation. San Francisco has a Moan-&-Groan-over-Joan Club. Other clubs just whistle. All this has upped Joan's salary to $750 weekly...
Women are still firmly excluded from McSorley's. Once a Greenwich Village feminist, disguised as a man, ordered an ale from Proprietor Bill McSorley. She downed first the ale, then her hair. Then she scrammed. Said the amazed McSorley between a moan and a bellow: "She was a woman! She was a goddamn woman...
...moan a tone in a microphone...