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...orchestra with flicks of a long linen hanky, her smoky voice quavered like a struck gong, snaked nasally through soaring loop-the-loops, dipped to guttural growls, sobs and moans. Her subtle phrasing and delicate changes of pitch evoked revival-like cries from the whistling, shouting, foot-stamping audience: "Ya qalbi [Oh, my heart!]" and "Ya habibi [Oh, my love!]." The first song, Amal Hayati (Hope of My Life), lasted 70 minutes. After a 45-minute rubdown backstage by her two personal masseurs, she returned to sing again. Another break, another rubdown, and she wailed on until...
They'll stone ya when you're try'n to go home...
Then they'll stone ya when you're there all alone...
...woman to sweep the kitchen. Other literary "heroes" are fall guys, incipient madmen, badgered Everymen, victims. Their motto, says Daniel Aaron, professor of English at Smith, seems to be, "Call me schlemiel." In more mundane life, there is much revulsion against the pose, if not the reality, of heroism. "Ya wanna be a hero?" is a mockery, not a compliment...
...freshmen, standing in a group outside Lamont, thinking about going to eat dinner, were joined by a seventh, who said, "Hey, ya hear, the football team...