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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...
...shot from 1970 on, another has framed prints of Galbraith, Eliot Richardson, even one picture signed "Rick God! I'm happy--Bette Middler." And in the Harvard Neighbors Office he has another kind of gallery, six photographs that make him feel very proud. There's a picture of James Baldwin that captures something very gentle in him, something that came through to Rick when he read Baldwin. "I've got a lifetime's worth of association with graphics and taking and making pictures," Rick says looking over his collection, "and I know enough to be a serious photographer. And there...