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...William Charvat Billy Budd, Sailor: An Inside Narrative . By Melville Herman . Ed. by Hayford Harrison Sealts Merton M. Jr. , Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1962 . Pp. ix , 432 . $8.00 . Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 440 The South...

...Billy H. Wyche Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 Southern Newspapers View Organized Labor in Billy H. Wyche The American press, like so many other social institutions, suffered a crisis of confidence during the depression-ridden thirties. Critics depicted it as incurably...

...Don DeLillo Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Don DeLillo Opposites, Chapter 10 of Ratner s Star The abiding presence in Ratner s Star (a novel loaded with cameo appearances by characters at once bizarre, funny, and scary) is fourteen-yearold Billy Twillig, winner of the first...

... his next moment, and a malfunctioning prostate gland. Billy Barrett of Mississippi and Jake Horner of Maryland periodi­ cally suffer blank-out; Billy fugues as well. Binx Bolling of Lou­ isiana is an insomniac and victim of general malaise. All of these young men, plus Ebenezer Cooke of Maryland, have...

... to restore that primacy. In the books before Moby-Dick Herman Melville fol­ lowed his brother s option, Rogin believes; with the Civil War he took the opposite choice, and late works such as Battle-Pieces and Billy Budd, Sailor, 226 The South Atlantic Quarterly endorse traditional authority. In White-Jacket...

... of a subway car as it smashed through the dark. In Players the opening scene takes place aboard an airplane. And as Ratner s Star begins, the main character, Billy Twillig, boards a Sony 747 en route to a gathering of scientists at work on deciphering an extraterrestrial message. In other novels...

... World War II novels. In Slaughterhouse-Five, the reader is also confronted with wartime spectacles and with war as spectacle. Arriving at a prison camp in Germany, Billy Pilgrim and the other American soldiers are enter­ tained by British prisoners who stage their own version of Cinderella. This show...

... of Selected Poems 1923-1943, for instance, Pondy Woods stands out both for its formal distinctive­ ness and for its delineation of the terrified anticipation of murder­ ous violence. In the same volume, among the poems written in his thirties, is The Ballad of Billie Potts, the one poem of Mr. Warren s...

... there to be a phone. This is what ren- dered 1970s phone films so terrifying: murderers Curt Duncan of When a Stranger Calls and Billy of Black Christmas were both locatable in a certain space—the shadow at the top of the stairs, the attic, the housemother’s bed- room. Both hero and villain were imagined...

.... The absence of even an implicit explanation is particularly no­ ticeable in The Ballad of Billie Potts, a long poem first published during the winter of 1944. For here the past and present are juxta­ posed, not once, but many times by the mechanics of the poem; the commentary is especially elaborate...

...-­ ­old Billy Weaver, who belonged to a prominent native Hawaiian merchant family, was surfing with sev- eral friends less than a mile off the windward side of Oʻahu. While Billy’s friends took a break, he...

... it ought to have been. In considering Slaughterhouse V, we enter a completely different world. The book concerns the adventures of Billy Pilgrim, an infan­ tryman captured during the Battle of the Bulge, taken across Ger­ many as a prisoner of war and imprisoned in Dresden, where he lives through the fire...

... a viewership Introduction 639 of nearly fifty million people, Michael Jackson performed his Num­ ber i single Billie Jean on Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, and Forever, the television special that commemorated the twenty-fifth anniver­ sary of Motown Records. After that, for better or worse, nothing...

... of hearing. To report that Penn State s president had the chapel pulpit bolted down before Billy Sunday arrived and that the athletic department s trainer gave Billy rubdowns after every sermon is to add to our genuine Americana. But humor and color are not the main virtues here. Mr. Pattee avoided...

... as if the Lord was hard of hearing. To report that Penn State s president had the chapel pulpit bolted down before Billy Sunday arrived and that the athletic department s trainer gave Billy rubdowns after every sermon is to add to our genuine Americana. But humor and color are not the main virtues here. Mr...

... feminist scholars and new jazz historians have increasingly reexamined Billie Holiday’s image, seeking to explain how we might understand Holiday as an intellectual, as an artist concerned with politics and protest, and as a woman making choices about career and personal life. Rather than appearing...

... alcoholism and with what seemed to him her outrageous depletion of his income. Her erratic conduct suggests a frustration with herself that is perhaps explain­ able by the interruption of the twenty-two-year-old Estelle s romance with Billy Faulkner on April 18, 1918 when she married Cornell Franklin (a more...

..., and it was not long before he was com­ pelled to move from his loghouse with its nail-studded door into a more commodious store building, weatherboarded and well-lighted. For about forty years Billy Moffatt s store was the trad­ ing center of a large territory embracing portions of several counties (then called...

... SADIK HAKIM, PIANO THRIVING ON A RIFF, KOKO ONLY CURLY RUSSELL, -BASS- MAX ROACH, DRUMS RECORDED IN NEW YORK WOR STUDIOS NOV. 26 1945 BILLIES bounce Pursuing Authenticity 145 billies bounce billies bounce WARMING UP A RIFF BILLIES bounce BILLIES BOUNCE NOWS THE TIME NOWS THE TIME NOWS THE TIME...

... in a December issue of Talking Machine World, the re­ cording industry s trade journal, speculated about what the popu­ larity of Hill-Billy Songs Means in Retail Profit Possibilities. The edi­ torial began by noting that the Death of Floyd Collins, Wreck of 226 Charles K. Wolfe the Shenandoah, At My...