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  • But who was George, Lennie's friend in the book, based on?

    Writers at Work, Seeking a Spark Elizabeth Lowry 2011

  • Meanwhile Lennie's own grandiosity, which his acolytes shared, represented him as the real fount of originality; he wasn't outside the mainstream, he was the mainstream, and the studio in Jamaica (I made the pilgrimage there once, around 1957, with one of his students) was the abode of truth and right teaching.

    All the Things You Are Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Lives and stories have direction and meaning, even stupid and meaningless lives like Lennie's in "Of Mice and Men" acquire through their place in a story at least the dignity and meaning of being stupid, meaningless lives.

    Librarian Nancy Pearl Dips Below The Reading Radar 2009

  • Then, as Lennie grabs the man's hand, the orchestra plays a single, spine-tinglingly dissonant chord and holds it for 20 seemingly endless seconds, stopping only when Lennie's tormentor falls to the floor in agony.

    Copland in Hollywood 2008

  • Lennie's in Shoreditch is a cross between a restaurant and the children's TV show Knightmare.

    February 10th, 2005 amuchmoreexotic 2005

  • In the margin beside it, scrawled in Lennie's distinctive handwriting, was written: Death, a polka!

    August 19th, 2005 2005

  • And in the middle of Lennie's most harmonically dissonantly beautiful passages I started hearing echoes of Ives's "indigenous grandeur."

    "Classical" American Music, cont'd from July 5 post The Daily Growler 2006

  • I reflect on Lennie's story often - especially around the New Year, which happens to be his birthday.

    More Than Music robertsj 2006

  • I reflect on Lennie's story often - especially around the New Year, which happens to be his birthday.

    More Than Music 2006

  • I asked her if Lennie's father couldn't take care of her.

    Letters on an Elk Hunt Elinore Pruitt Stewart

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