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...stakes for collegiate players were much higher at the turn of the century, when golf was an infant sport in America played by well-bred, easy-going elite at a handful of schools. Whichever of the three Ivy powerhouses prevailed became the United States Intercollegiate Champion. The Big Three medalist was enthroned as that year's individual Intercollegiate Champion...
Buffett's seagoing impulses were bred in Mobile, where his father was a naval architect at a local shipyard. His grandfather, to whom Buffett dedicated an album, was a retired ship captain who first sailed aboard a whaler at the age of 14. Buffett himself left home at 18, bounced through a series of Southern colleges and took guitar lessons. He began touring the Southern honky-tonk circuit and recorded his first album in Nashville. Says he: "It was a terrible record...
Alan Lupo's Liberty's Chosen Home, a landmark study of the crisis precipitated three years ago by Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr.'s decision to implement integration by busing, attempts to deal with those questions and criticisms. Lupo, an experienced Boston-bred journalist with a keen eye for detail, does not present the reader with a completely seminal work. He repeats and amplifies some of the observations Harvard's Robert Coles and the lesser-known teacher and author Kim Marshall have made about Boston's problems with busing. On balance the value of his book is that it backs...
...Americanization, its assimilation into a new, and somehow less vital society, perhaps the criticism is valid. For Corry, as another Irishman, can never really condone the family's fall from a state of Gaelic grace, and his book carries with it the insistently remonstrative tone of the well-bred but confidently self-righteous priests and nuns who people it. But still, Corry recognizes that he can't speak ill of his subjects, for the cozy world of Irish-American society they abandoned has slowly ceased to exist. The green flags no longer dot the Brooklyn waterfront; Italians and Poles live...
...murders sprang from some aspect of the oppression of women. Euphemie Lacoste, victim of an arranged marriage, was accused of poisoning her husband in 1844. While the bourgeoisie in the reign of Louis Philippe prattled of love matches, Euphemie's father signed a marriage contract for his convent-bred 22-year-old daughter. The husband was Henri Lacoste, the girl's 68-year-old great-uncle, who was riddled with syphilis...