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...most fruitful years were with Warner Bros, in the '40s and '50s, when he played stepfather to existing characters like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck and created such new ones as a warring Bear Family, a libidinous skunk called Pepe le Pew and, above all, the most popular animated figures since Donald Duck: the maddeningly capture-proof Road Runner and his perennially thwarted nemesis, the Coyote...
F.D.R. and others worshiped in the President's pew in St. John's Episcopal Church on the park's northeast corner...
...spent a decade patiently explaining that the American crisis demanded a radical solution, that the old worn-out liberalism had in fact sent the bombers over Vietnam. Tom Hayden worked for years in the same ghettoes through which Robert Kennedy paraded. Tom Hayden sat in a back pew in St. Patrick's cathedral during Robert Kennedy's funeral and cried...
...sunny optimism that glowed through the hard years in California, there was little more than grasshoppers and blizzards in answer to the prayers of country parsons. They were people who felt overpowered not only by the elements but by other men. McGovern saw it from the front pew, saw it when he hunted rabbits over the parched countryside. Always there were the Scriptures ringing in his head?someone worse off to be helped, someone more unhappy to cheer...
From his grandfather and older brother, Prine had learned to play a $28.95 mail-order guitar. Later he moved up to a $217 model purchased with money he earned working as a pew duster in an Episcopal church on Saturday nights. At 14 he began writing songs modeled after Hank Williams' why-don't-you-listen-while-I-tell-you-this-tale-of-woe style. At 24 he walked into one of the coffeehouses in Chicago's Old Town district and sang in public for the first time. "People were very responsive," he recalls. "If they hadn...