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...pants"). Moreover, though he may be forgiven for crooning in the days of his youth, "My soul seemed a stringed instrument upon which the Gods were playing a melody of despair," it is wearying, 40 years later, to hear the same theme strummed on the same wet banjo: "The moan of the wind in the [South Carolina] pine trees was like the distant singing of the colored people, singing their sad song to a heedless...
...came from behind a signboard across the street. Special Agent Cooper, the man who was going to guard Mickey, toppled over with two slugs in his belly. Miss David was hit three times. A Cohen lieutenant dropped with a slug in his kidney, screaming. Only Mickey stood silent, without moan or shout. He had been drilled through the right shoulder...
Plainly, I am not "a sports enthusiast." And it is fortunate that Harvard affords sanctuary for that small band, including myself, which does not shriek, moan, gibber, or drool at the actions of local athletes. (I would like to make it plain that my group is not "intellectual," and that its scholastic average is only slightly above the average. My friends and I enjoy moving-pictures, ice-cream, comic-strips, and in most other respects are Typically American...
...actor's-only a fair dancer but a competent drinker." His dying grandfather, who had Episcopal leanings, was "a merry and evil old man who remembered the days . . . when, small though he was, he could swing a quarryman's sledge and make a woman moan with love." He had urged Aaron to become a rebel and go west...
Made statuesque by her 30 added pounds and sporting as always a great white gardenia in her glossy hair, Billie took her homage like a queen. Her voice, a petulant, sex-edged moan, was stronger than ever although she had done no singing at the reformatory. Seemingly tireless and with only three days of rehearsal behind her, she sang 32 numbers, mostly cultist favorites like Billie's Blues, All of Me, Fine and Mellow, and the throat-tightening Strange Fruit...