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Charles Ravenel, Democratic nominee for governor of South Carolina in 1974, and the U.S. Senate in 1978, is the first class marshal for the Class of 1961. response to the switch from Latin to Englishdiplomas. We protested becoming modern. Itwas a paean to liturgy...
...universe, a voyage that is presented with no more wonderment than a trip down to the 7-Eleven. Road to Nowhere, which ends the second side, has the title of a Sunday sermon and the rhythm of an Acadian barn dance but turns out to be an unabashed paean to nihilism: "Well we know where we're goin'/ But we don't know where we've been/ And we know what we're knowin'/ But we can't say what we've seen . . . We're on a road to nowhere/ Come on inside...
From one window Alexander could see the 18th century Moscow Post Office, a structure that he invests with churning life. In a paean to the Mushroom Market on the banks of the Moscow River, the author offers pungent and densely textured scenes of ancient commerce, which have been fluently rendered by his niece, Ann Pasternak Slater. "Everything was primitively displayed in open barrels, the frozen carcasses of great fish simply laid straight on the snow," he writes. "Pickled, soused, and salted products stood in ranks . . . vats of bilberry, cranberry, cloudberry...
...very likely, you can sing a chorus, along with all the Lauper loopies who cover the age spectrum, from dress-alike five-year-olds to grannies gone groovy: All Through the Night; She Bop, which inverted Gene Vincent's classic Be-Bop-a-Lula into a thoroughly unapologetic paean to female autoeroticism; Time After Time; and Girls Just Want to Have Fun, a kind of antic feminist anthem that helped get Cyndi on the cover of Ms. as one of its women of the year. No other woman has made an album at any point in her career that launched...
...morning that Ronald Reagan stood under the Capitol dome and delivered his Inaugural paean to boundless opportunity, Leander V. Gilmore, 61, of "no fixed address," was found frozen to death in an abandoned house a few miles away. The cold was kinder to many others of the capital's 10,000 or so homeless. When the icy weather kept home Inaugural partygoers, several of the hosts, including a bank and a law firm, donated their uneaten goodies to the poor. Outside a Washington shelter for the homeless, ragged street people gaped as a purple van from Ridgewell's ("caterers...