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...what does it matter? Why even include it? Nevertheless this starts him off on a long reverie of nostalgia for his days as a chapel boy, from which he awakes a few pages later, and returns to thoughts of his mother. In fact, the book seems more like a letter to himself; he is quite fond of discreetly recounting the dinners and accolades he has amassed...
Still more irksome is the often complete triviality of this cycle of anecdote and self-interrogation. In one instance, switching the tense so as to appear in the presence of his mother, he is reminded of himself as a youth when attending mass. The chapel, he recalls...
Viewed from a distance, they make a handsome family, all dressed up and sitting together in the courtroom-as healthy and prosperous looking as when they sat proudly in the pew at the Marymount School chapel, where Patty made her first communion 13 years ago. But San Francisco Federal Judge Oliver J. Carter's paneled courtroom is no church, and Randolph and Catherine Hearst have traveled prodigious emotional distances to be at their daughter's side again. The first shock of the kidnaping, the pain of Patty's taped denunciation of her parents as "pigs," the dark...
...refute Harvard's contention that she was not qualified, Napoli cities her teaching experience part-time at Smith College and Harvard Extension School, and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the two years after she got her Ph.D. in 1973. At UNC, Napoli says, she taught Italian and linguistics to a class of native Italian graduate students, and "no one ever complained" about her language ability. The real reason Harvard did not hire her, Napoli thinks, is Della Terza's attitude toward women in graduate school. "Della Terza is not aware that he discriminated against...
...groups united for Sunday school in the first-floor chapel, a spacious but simple chamber without stained glass windows or other religious symbols. While over 100 branch members sat scattered through the rows of wooden benches divided by two aisles, Peterson, his assistants in the branch presidency, and several Harvard undergraduates who arranged or participated in the service sit up front on the dias in theater seats with green padding. This 90-minute service, followed by separate classes on Mormon doctrine and the final Sacraments meeting at 6:30 p.m., included individual speeches and music. The Mormon hymns have...