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...ample dark figure in the white gown with the gold-cross necklace lifted her majestic contralto through My Home Over There ("There's gonna be peace one day ), The Holy Bible, Ain't Goin' Study War No More, bending her notes in the manner of the great blues singer Bessie Smith. Occasionally, she stepped away from the microphone to let her big voice boom through the hall without the aid of electronics. When she got to Joshua Fit ae Battle of Jericho, the walls of the auditorium almost came down. Mahalia escaped only by improvising a song...
Little birdle, little birdle, why is your head so red? After all that I've been through it a wonder I ain't dead...
Said one official who has seen the plans: "It sure ain't Georgian...
...learned to read, mind his manners and hunt quail under the guidance of his grandfather, a leathery old Southport, N.C., Socrates who, in his literary reincar nation in The Old Man and the Boy, was good company but perhaps a little too fond of saying such things as "children ain't nothin' but puppies anyhow." This second book is more of the same, with a few of Ruark's African adventures thrown in. Like the first, it is written in sloppy, shoes-off language, and the fact that the author now buys his shoes for pounds sterling...
Islands of the Sea (Buena Vista), the most recent of Walt Disney's ain't-nature-grand operas, is a scrappy but fascinating "featurette" (28 minutes) that observes in full color the recondite fauna of several seldom-visited islands-the Galápagos, the Falklands and Guadalupe. Best shots: a hideous six-foot iguana leaps into the sea and instantly seems transmogrified into a silly wriggling pollywog in a milk bottle; an elephant seal, a 20-ft. blob of blubber, lies snoring into its floppy, built-in nosebag, looking from the neck up like none other than...