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...furthermore, the South is the home of the Great Oral Literary Tradition--another myth from days gone by many would like to believe in, a myth from the days when people told tales on the front porch while the cicadas sang and the Spanish moss languished dolefully on the eucalyptus trees...
NORTHEASTERN (18-5); Harris 9 10-12 28; Moss 5 2-3 12; Rucker 6 5-6 17; Leitao 2 2-4 6; Braswell 0 1-2 1; Jefferson 2 0-0 2; Robinson 0 0-0 0; Helneck 2 0-0 4; Lehmann 0 0-0 0; TEAM...
Mullaney's offense is usually geared to one or two hot shooters. Last year, that shooter was Pete Moss, who averaged more than 25 points against Harvard to pace the Bruins to two wins over the Crimson hoopsters...
...singers ("Praising the Lord the best way we can"), an integrated high school song-and-dance team (good enough for the Donny and Marie show), and the best clog dancing I've ever seen from the Muckalee Mudstompers, a local troupe with a world-class clogger in Jeff Moss, a 16-year-old native of Plains. Talk to him and he only talks of dancing-how he loves it, how he practices every minute he can but means to study agriculture in college. Jimmy? "Well, everybody's guessing what he'll do. I guess...
There are many aspects of Cornell's imagery which seem fey, precious or backward-looking: the Christmas frosting, bats and moss and dingly dells. There is a treacherous line between sentiment and sentimentality, particularly in his evocations of his own childhood. Yet time and again, even his most gothic fantasies and his most fussily reverential evocations of dead ballerinas are plucked back from the edge by Cornell's rigor as a formal artist. The essence of the box is to contain, and within a rectangular grid, at that. Cornell enhanced this with a spare, strict sense of proportion...