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...less charm or interest than the author imagines, Pomeroy is given to such gestures as nailing his hand to Catherine's front door with a gun butt. He is also inclined to flights of lyrical bombast: "They were pines that dared to suggest that islands are misery where brave horsemen run off the earth and topple into the unknown...
They will always bear the onus of mystery to the innocent-bystander freshman who walked down Mass Ave to read dirty magazines at Nini's Corner only to see three liquor-brave men wearing hospital-clean tuxedos and gnawing on cigars like billowing corporate smokestacks laughing fraternally and singing the Latin chorus of "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" out of key. The repulsion or infatuation he feels will somehow translate into his own social symbols...
...learn about her city's 1.3 million Puerto Ricans, New York Correspondent Mary Cronin roamed from the South Bronx to that hallowed immigrant turf, the Lower East Side. Says she: "All the people were warm and brave, full of a joy of life, full of poetry, determined to hold on to their own rich culture in spite of incredible obstacles...
Last week speculation also ran to names rarely heard before: Paulo Evaristo Arns, 57, Brazil's brave champion of human rights; Joseph Cordeiro, 60, of Pakistan, who exudes saintly simplicity and concern for the poor; and Poland's Karol Wojtyla, 58, who is a strong leader in a hostile environment-and speaks fluent Italian...
...events of the past six months have not helped things. John Havlicek retired, and in so doing, stripped away the last vestiges of a classier era. Bill Walton uncovered Nixonesque medical practices in Portland and was brave enough to make them public. And in case you forgot, the Washington Bullets defeated the Seattle Supersonics with a best-forgotten cast of characters for the league championship...