Word: aaron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aaron Copland, D.F.A., composer. From Bay Street to Bourbon Street, from Appalachians to Alamo, from Piedmont to Puget Sound, from Flatbush to Fisherman's Wharf, his music captures the grandeur and diversity of the nation...
CLOWN ON FIRE by Aaron Judah. 211 pages. Dial...
This hell of a book about my cousin was written by some English writer named Aaron Judah. It is the second of three novels on the Hosea family, but the first to be printed in the U.S. For this one, Judah got a Dial Press Fellowship Award for Fiction, whatever that is. The publisher says it's to encourage young authors. Judah is 43 already, for Chrissake. It's supposed to be goddam secret how much the fellowship pays, but the fact is Dial gave this Judah less than a thousand dollars. That's not very encouraging...
...Just what indications does Governor Reagan need to be "able to recommend" clemency? Is not the fact that Aaron Mitchell's was a human life enough? To refuse clemency, to decide to kill a man, and then to kill him in a way that takes twelve minutes would seem inhumanly cruel were it not for the fact that it was done by human beings. Cruel it remains. Yes, "the law is the law," but God also made a law that applies in such a case. Or is God's law not as worthy of being upheld as that...
...twisted toward the witnesses. Straining against the eight thick straps that bound him to a chair, he cried: "I am Jesus Christ!" Moments later, a pellet of potassium cyanide was dropped into a solution of dilute sulfuric acid, and blowers began sucking the lethal gas upward. Within twelve minutes, Aaron Mitchell, 37, who was convicted of slaying a Sacramento policeman during a 1963 tavern holdup, was dead. He was the first man to be executed in California in four years and the first in the U.S. this year...