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...clowns still provoke mirth. Massimilliano Truzzi still juggles flaming torches; the Wallendas ride a bicycle tandem on the high wire; the Flying Concellos do their breathless, double-and-triple-somersault flying leaps; the lions & tigers look simultaneously ferocious and bored; the trained seals render My Country, 'Tis of Thee; and the band still blares & blares, making all its half-hundred numbers sound exactly like the one by Stravinsky...
Another time Sam watched Black Cawper, the local strong man, fight an almost Icelandic battle on the moor, from dusk to dawn, with a supernatural blond giant. When Black lost, he said: "Ba gum, Ah'd like to tak' thee hoam and hev a pup off'n thee!" Black's son Ian was the first blond Cawper in generations...
Just a Closer Walk with Thee (Sister Rosetta Tharpe; Decca). More blues -and religious at that. Sung by a vibrant Negro of the nightclubs, onetime Holy Roller church singer...
Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of thy favour and glad to do thy will. Bless our land with honourable industry, sound learning, and pure manners. Save us from violence, discord, and confusion; from pride and arrogancy, and from every evil way. Defend our liberties, and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindreds and tongues. Endue with the spirit of wisdom those to whom in thy Name we entrust the authority of government, that there...
...serve themselves drinks which taste like a cross between Minneapolis grain whiskey and Swedish aquavit. They turn the radio on to the Minnesota game and raise the volume to the limit. Then the whole bunch of them sit around yelling "ski-yu-mah" and singing "Minnesota, Hats Off to Thee" until the Golden Horde has trounced another poor opponent. Woe to the hapless Nebraskan or Indianan who stumbles on their festivities and refuses to raise his voice in praise of the Gophers...