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...ACE OF HEARTS A retired judge creates a volunteer force for seniors...
Residents of Sacramento County, Calif., are likely to have heard of ACE (Aide Corps for the Elderly). It recruits and deploys volunteers to work with 35 public and private agencies that serve the frail elderly residents of the county. There are ACE public service spots on radio and TV, ads and articles in community newspapers and ACE open houses; its recruitment tables in shopping malls and community centers are piled high with red, white and blue ACE pamphlets listing some of the good works its volunteers perform. People respond. Most, however, are looking for help, not offering...
...managed to get this far--bodysurfing on each new wave of knowledge--with the help of two multiple coronary bypasses (1976, 1993), an angioplasty with stents (successful just the other day; a couple of efforts to unblock other coronary tunnels by angioplasty failed painfully), and a supporting cast of ACE inhibitors, beta blockers, cholesterol thwarters, diuretics, aspirin to make the platelets slippery, nitroglycerine, blood-pressure suppressants, vitamin E, folic acid, a rowing machine, a stoic personality and the diet of a desert mystic. It goes without saying that a heart attack is also a good way to quit smoking...
Forcum's achievements on the court are surpassed only by her leadership. Throughout the season, Forcum has been the deciding factor for Harvard during key games, often providing the authoritative dig or the intimidating ace needed to silence the opponent and bolster the Crimson's play...
Maybe this does sound like what a 90-year-old"ace of English teachers" would say. Maybe thesemoments of reflection, springing for thestar-gazing narrators out of the past, are thebrain of Roth's book. If Ira's story seems opaque,maybe it's his brother's act of remembrance thatis tragic and exciting Murray's retellingcertainly determine the structure of the book.Roth, even when speaking through hisquasi-autobiographical Zuckerman, seems tounderstand the historiographic sacrifice thatMurray has to make to remember his brother socompletely...