Word: yessir
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...they are helped, to the extent a broken vessel can be helped. Later Del Castilho will send "Chaplain Michael" a note thanking him; Horace will agree, "Yessir, to me he seemed young, but I guess we all got to start somewhere." Tonight the new widower says simply, "She's gone to a much better place." Then the family, Michael Baker at their side, enters Marilyn Yopp's room, where Marshburn lays her head against her mother's face and cries, and cries, and cries...
...ancestry and the transreligion union between his Christian mother and Jewish father: "I, however, was raised neither as Catholic nor as Jew. I was both, and nothing: a jewholic-anonymous, a cathjew nut, a stewpot, a mongrel cur. I was--what's the word these days?--atomised. Yessir: a real Bombay...
...smart cookie, brighter and more acutely intuitive than the men in charge. Yet she treats them all -- bosses, bureaucrats, the occasional serial killer -- with an elaborate respect whose irony shows only at the cutting edges. When an asylum director sneers that Starling has wasted his time, she replies, "Yessir, but then I would've missed the pleasure of your company, sir." That second sir is the smooth stiletto...
Sheldon, whose part in the play within the play never goes beyond whittling a stick and mumbling "yessir," "nossir," and "Iff'n you want, sir," is a character well aware of his position as a Black actor. He knows his talent is wasted by prejudiced directors who know he needs the work...
...held for three to six months. Between head shaving, close-order drills and servile work, the youthful felons are screamed and hollered at by correctional officers skilled in the art of humiliation. They are compelled to rise at dawn, eat meals in silence, speak only when spoken to ("Sir, yessir"). The hope is that the rough treatment they experience will produce a permanent "change of attitude" that will survive after the inmates are released...