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...supper there was talk of getting up a petition asking for some kind of inter house. But it was awfully...
Except that it isn't. The performance of a supper-club songbird, in fact, is a coldly calculated exercise in group seduction. Every movement, every lighting change is as carefully mapped out as a market-research study and a subliminal soft-sell. There is, for instance, the old "arctic gust" routine, whereby the air conditioning in a club is turned up full blast a few minutes before showtime. The hapless audience, unaware of what hit it, naturally attributes the sudden lift in spirits to the personality of the performer. And when it comes time for the singer...
...flock of strays from a snarling wolf pack. Perhaps the most rewarding adventure of all is the boy's first day of real work when the shearers come, his triumph when he is invited to leave the waiting women and children and join the joking men at supper...
...Pete has forgiven him. In his year and a quarter of life he never had anything but kindness from human beings; he would gladly give the other six or eight or ten of it rather than make one late for supper...
...Pete has forgiven him. In his year and a quarter of life he never had anything but kindness from human beings; he would gladly give the other six or eight or ten of it rather than make one late for supper...