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Angela greeted Howard Moore-whom she had not seen since the trial--most warmly of all. She kissed Hosea Williams--the shortly, scrappy preacher who led the bloody march to Pettus Bridge at Selma--and let him slide a blacksmith's arm around her. But when she saw Howard Moore, she slipped away from Hosea and, letting her clipboard fall, wrapped her arms around her attorney's neck. "Oh. Howard," she said as she hugged him. Lucky Howard...
...CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH...
Keneally's Jimmie Blacksmith is actually only half aboriginal. His father was a nameless white man. Jimmie's mixed strain is both judgment and destiny. Mentally but not emotionally weaned from the chants and lore of a now decadent tribal heritage, he tries to make his way as a houseboy and laborer in the harsh, pinched world of white Protestants-the missionaries and farmers who are claiming the open land. From them Jimmie learns the snobbery of materialism, according to which "possession [is] a holy state...
Behind the many roles was a man solid and roughhewn. The son of an Irish-born blacksmith, Cushing had a face like a Connemara bogman and a voice like coal rattling down a chute into a South Boston basement. He seemed not so much to live life as to wage it, suggesting that the years were too short for what he had to do. Only his huge energy obscured the truth about how long, and how seriously he had been ill. For years he fought off migraine headaches, ulcers, asthma and emphysema-the latter two so debilitating that...
Cardinal Cushing acquired a nationwide reputation during his long career. The son of a South Boston blacksmith, he came to prominence as a friend and advisor to the Kennedy family. He gave the invocation at John Kennedy's inauguration in 1960, and also presided at his funeral three years later...