Word: baldwin
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During the school year Fayer lived in Pennsylvania, attending the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr. But during vacations and summers, she returned to Puerto Rico to do her heavy training under the club coach's direction. She swam a total of 13,000-14,000 yards in those "two-a-day" training sessions...
Roger Martin was the co-captain and MVP of his high school basketball team. Ken Argentieri wrestled and played tennis "way back when" for Baldwin High School. And Greg Nitzkowski ran track and played football before he left the sunny skies of Huntington Beach, Calif., for those of Cambridge...
...musings of Jeffrey Walker about the Orestiaen legend and American tyrants in "After-Dinner Reading." There are reactions to Harvard, to lovers, to grandmothers, to the question "what's hapnin." There are two tightly-constructed and vivid short stories, as well as an eloquent review of James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk. There is even a short play about the emotions preceding a slave revolt in Virginia in 1800, the prologue of which affirms passionately, emphatically "freedom's all I'll ever need...
...HANSON W. BALDWIN 499 pages. Harper...
...lots more interesting. He's preacher, not a pastor or reverend, of some fundamentalist church up in Cabin Creek, and one of the leaders of a group that tried to remove English books from the Kanawha County schools a year ago. The textbooks included short stories by James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Gwendolyn Brooks, other radicals. One of the formative experiences of my life was seeing Avis Hill lead a group of women down a street in Charleston to the building that houses the school board, where they built a pyre of the godless books. They were singing "We Shall Overcome...