Word: whispering
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...when she sings, she is something else again. "Ain't nobody gonna turn me around," she belts out in the knowing tones of an older and wiser woman. Her plangent voice, ranging from a sensual whisper to a banshee wail, exuberantly projects the confident sexuality of Baby, I Love You: If you want my lovin'. , . Stretch out your arms, little boy, you're gonna get it, 'Cause I love you. Or it summons the throbbing despair and resignation of Going Down Slow, a lament of oncoming death: Somebody write my father . . . Tell him that early...
...effective political opponents during the long dictatorship of Portugal's Premier, Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. Though the Portuguese themselves are neither particularly prudish nor incorruptible, Salazar's puritanical regime, with the help of a highly efficient police organization, has always tried to silence even the faintest whisper of vice in high places. Last week, however, Salazar's regime failed in its efforts to squelch the worst public scandal in its 40 years of rule...
Indulgent, or candid, or uncommon reader--I've some: a wife, a nun, a ghost or two--If I write for anyone, I wrote for you; So whisper when I die, We was too few; Write over me (if you can write; I hardly knew...
Randall Jarrell wrote this bitter-sweet little obituary for himself more than ten years before he was struck by a car one night as he walked along a country road near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His wife and the nun have returned to whisper his praises in a volume of appreciations published this fall. Mrs. Jarrell recalls her husband's enthusiasms for sports cars, Mahler, and a giant cat named Kitten; Sister M. Bernetta Quinn plods patiently through an exposition of "Metamorphoses in Randall Jarrell...
...merriment of a wedding banquet, I propose we sing, "Make Your Bed For Two," last year's hit song. Everybody shudders. No, not that, my young friends whisper, we'll all end up in jail. Don't you know it was written by Theodorakis? It's strictly forbidden. Later on, after we leave the banquet, the same friends roll up the car windows and softly sing the song. Warmed up, they continue with "The Rebel," the centuries-old anthem of the Cretan revolutions against the Turks. That is also forbidden, because of its suggestive language: "When will the stars break...