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Cotter, who hails from Charlestown, captained the state champion Matignon High School team in 1976-77. The right winger, who scored 40 goals and notched 29 assists his senior year, copped All-Scholastic recognition. Cotter played on two state champion teams and three Catholic Conference champion squads while amassing 183 career points...
...deserved its reputation of being a bastion of liberalism, Lupo states early in his book--from the start, bigotry and oppression existed side-by-side with more enlightened attitudes. So Bostonians cannot accurately becharged with hypocrisy. And any surprise about Southie's revolt, or the negative feelings in Charlestown, the North End, West Roxbury and Dorchester is based on a misunderstanding of Boston's history and people...
...reason for their locutions is as simple as the speakers: minor-league jocks laboring in a sport that has never been noted for attracting gentlemen?professional hockey. The Charlestown Chiefs represent one of those old, grimily industrialized middle-size Northeastern cities, the kind of place most viewers hear about only when it loses a defense contract. In a desperate attempt to turn his losers into winners, the coach (Paul Newman) converts the team from skaters into brawlers?tank-town versions of the old, notorious Philadelphia Flyers. His tactics are as low as the team's skills in language arts...
These petty squabbles take on significance beyond good gossip, though, if you consider the roots and the history of the immigrant, anti-Brahmin Boston from which they spring. Why, when parents from Southie, Eastie, Hyde Park and Charlestown hold a summit conference to discuss how to undermine the uppity "niggers" and, increasingly, "spics", are they also kicking each other under the table? Why, for example, does a once outspoken liberal like Mayor Kevin White have to uncommittedly walk a tightrope on the busing issue, protecting himself with a net of double-talking and triple-talking aides below...
...shared bitterness of parents all over Boston glares forth in the treatment a group of mothers at Charlestown High on Wednesday gave to reporters and cameramen, most of whom were there just because they "had to be" themselves. To publicize their anger and to be photographed, the demonstrators stood outside the high school and hurled bottles and bricks. But when press arrived, they jeered at them and cried. "You guys are vultures." Together, of course, these two actions make little sense. Yet the hecklers' sensibility comes through only in this characteristic illogic. People in Boston may no longer be sure...