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...derision or to gather around pianos and bang out American swing. In Dublin's green parks, sedate old pensioners and mooning poets basking in the warm spring sunshine suddenly found themselves uprooted to make way for football games. Back alleys echoed to the shouts of handball and toss-ha'penny players. The merrily rioting kids stopped politely to give their names and addresses when windows got broken. When one crowd tipped over a pushcart in Dublin's market district, another group of 50 rushed in to set it on its wheels again. Never in the beautiful world...
Even when he goes in for dialectal ditties, much of the Kaye piquancy depends upon rapid enunciation. In Babbitt and the Bromide, he summarizes a meeting of two "solid citizens" with: "Hello," "How are you?" "Howza folks?" "What's new?" "I'm great." "That's good." "Ha, ha." "Knock wood...
...wound up in the City of God, so Hogarth's "Tom Rakewell" awoke from the happy madness of Drury Lane's Rose Tavern to the chains of the miserably insane in Bedlam. The year he died (1763), Hogarth added a final bitter detail to this engraving: a ha'penny stuck against the wall to indicate that Britannia was also an inmate...
...power squeeze on Iran grew tighter by the day. Sharp Russian pressure was bearing down from the north, and now a mild U.S. push was coming up from the south. Between them lay the helpless, hapless Government of Premier Ebrahim Ha-kimi...
...Music 1 student who knows this and remembers that Faure's creative activity spanned the period from 1863 to 1924 will imagine himself as able to place the composer with some accuracy. And perhaps he may ask why the Music Department ha gone to so much bother and expense to celebrate a Faure centennial...