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...there is a genius among the storytellers of 1981, it is J. O'Callahan, from Marshfield, Mass., a man of such poetry, wit and elegance that, even in a rugby shirt, he seems Elizabethan. O'Callahan writes his own superb stories. The Herring Shed, told from the point of view of a 14-year-old girl learning the mysteries of her first job in Nova Scotia during the darkest days of World War II, is a minor masterpiece of coming-of-age literature. As she strings up her fish to dry, O'Callahan's young narrator...
There are polite disagreements about technique. Some encourage improvisation. Some stick strictly to their text. Some argue that the first law of storytelling is to keep up a flow of words. O'Callahan, who believes that storytelling is a kind of music, with the storyteller as the instrument, has advised in print: "Be brave enough to use silence...
Mayor Hayes says the city treasury just cannot afford a quick fix. To Bill Callahan, the union's chief negotiator, this amounts to "reneging on a commitment to end sex discrimination...
...Callahan says his union is "not planning to bring San Jose to a halt." Indeed, less than half of the unionized workers are striking, and only the city's libraries and recreation programs are shut down...
...sure I wanted to. It was big and noisy and dirty and I just couldn't see the attraction. When we landed in Boston it was raining and there was a nice layer of fog covering the city. On the way home from the airport we drove through the Callahan Tunnel and very few people honked their horns. It was good to be home...