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...Father expected all of us to be officers and gentlemen," says Kemper, "which was hard for my sisters, but not for me." The colonel tried and failed to make Johnny a star athlete, but his upright New England mother made him something better. "He is a good man," says his sister Peg. "Anything cheap or second-rate has never been in his mind...
...being anti-Duvalier, shot him three times in the back, twice more in the head, in full view of the passersby. Last week a night watchman at a highway maintenance depot who refused to hand over supplies for the Macoutes was found beaten to death and his body tied upright with barbed wire...
...however, she counts the upright and inverted versions of one of the 19 as two; and she includes one that is a three-part fugue! I wonder what her reaction will be if she ever learns that Bach planned to write a 20th piece--another four-voice fugue on four themes, which was then to be inverted note for note in all four parts...
...sleepy seaside resort of Broadstairs, Kent, where Charles Dickens worked on David Copperfield. "Rather a nobby place," was Dickens' description of Broadstairs, but old friends remember young Heath as rather nobody. While other boys played on the beach, he preferred to read indoors or practice on the battered upright in the Heaths' front room. He grew up in a semidetached, six-room house beside the railway tracks that shudders every time a train passes, and he returns there at every opportunity. Each year, he still organizes and directs a Christmas concert, known as "Our Carol Party" in Broadstairs...
...line; I think they are a mistake." Though some critics have pictured Dodgson's little girl friends as 19th century Lolitas. he was an unfailingly considerate and honest man, whose moral standards were, as Alice Liddell described his physical posture, "almost more than upright, as if he had swallowed a poker." He suffered at the thought of children growing up and forgetting his friendship. Within two years of Alice's first telling. Alice's mother made it clear that she did not welcome a friendship between her daughter and a man 20 years older. Through the Looking...