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Twenty years a baseball writer for The New Yorker, Angell first focused on the memorable pitching, hitting and fielding that took place in the park. These joyous narratives--compiled in two previous books. The Summer Game and Five Seasons--were darkened only by the anguish of a slumping player or a pennant-hungry...
...saxophonist with the Stan Kenton orchestra in the late 1940s and early 1950s and for years waged a war against his drug habit, which he detailed in his 1979 autobiography, Straight Life; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. He once said of his reliance on heroin to relieve his anguish and self-doubt: "If this is what it takes, then this is what I'm going to do, whatever dues I have to pay." During one 16-year period, he marked more time in prison and hospitals than on bandstands. Miraculously, though, his style grew into a distinctive, fiery...
...bewildered foreigners. Moscow believed it was a trick to destroy detente. The rest of the world had difficulty grasping what all of the agony was about. Foreigners tended to watch the spectacle in the way that an agnostic beholds a believer who is suffering a bout of spiritual anguish; the ordeal seems impressive, perhaps, but unnecessary, odd and even self-indulgent. "The French never understood why the Americans got so upset over Watergate,' French Historian François Furet said last week. "The French in particular and Europeans in general do not have a moral conception of politics...
...unconditional." But his tone was paternal rather than condemnatory. Though the church refuses Communion to those in second marriages, John Paul spoke to the divorced with sympathy: "Christ himself, the living source of grace and mercy, is close to all those whose marriage has known trial, pain or anguish. We must reach out with love, the love of Christ, to those who know the pain of failure in their marriages...
Hinckley's well-to-do family in Colorado tried to help him but without success. His mother Jo Ann testified to years of anguish, noting that her son's depressed condition had worsened dramatically in the fall of 1980. In October the family considered placing him in a mental hospital; a psychiatrist said no, urging the Hinckleys to persuade their son to accept responsibility for himself. John's parents gave him an ultimatum: by March 1, 1981, he was to have a job. Instead, he left home; a week later he called from New York, incoherent...