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...been "a good, innocent and quite timid boy." And from the age of 14, in 1896, until a year before his death in 1963, Angelo Giuseppe Ron-call i kept a record of his thoughts and dreams on odd pieces of paper. Lovingly edited by his long-time personal secretary, Msgr. Loris Capovilla, Pope John XXIII's diary, titled The Journal of a Soul, was published in Rome. At 15, the Pope-to-be was already praying "more than anything else, for union with the separated churches"; at 21, as a seminarian, he mused: "Even if I were...
...book is the story of an education. Runty 19-year-old Angelo has an idiot sister, a slatternly mother, a dreary job as a druggist's assistant, and no hopes. He is intelligent, and he stakes everything on reason. Runty, it seems, can stand the whole crummy mess so long as he can remain aloof from the environment he despises and, ultimately, from himself...
Then, in the hospital where he peddles toothpaste and Cokes for the druggist, he meets a mad Jewish orderly named Sammy. Reason or reasons do not seem to exist for Sammy. His role is to drown the rationalist Angelo in humanity, and he rants outrageous anecdotes proving that the perversity and saintliness of the human swarm are inextricably intertwined. In the hospital Sammy is seen acting out his mad parables, caring lovingly for the dying, and hooking complaining patients on the morphine he steals and peddles...
WHITE ON WHITE-Contemporaries, 992 Madison Ave. at 77th. Something old, something new, something borrowed, but nothing blue. Old hands (Nevelson, Albers) and new (Angelo Savelli, Omar Rayo) make the most of a colorless but sometimes surprising marriage by wedding white with white in sculpture, painting and graphics. Through...
...Refusing to throw even a tentative punch, Clay dropped his arms, began dancing aimlessly around the ring. Up to Clay's corner stormed Bill Faversham, head of the eleven-man Louisville syndicate that has staked Clay to his pro career. "Angie," he yelled to Clay's trainer, Angelo Dundee. "Make him stop clowning." Clay would not listen. He was picking the time...