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Inevitably, though, Goodwin's attachment to baseball came into conflict with her strict Catholic regimen, with a gravity that could only be a child's. Goodwin's recollection of her First Confession is perhaps the most endearing scene in the book. "I wished harm to Allie Reynolds [the Yankee pitcher...
Gould includes a footnote on the Heaven's Gate cult, as he consciously disproves his theory that "the fusion of Christian millennialism with traditional beliefs of conquered (and despairing) peoples has often led to particularly incendiary, and tragic, results." After the Heaven's Gate tragedy, Gould realizes this 10-page...
A guilty sense of the injustice of fame assaults the famed one as well: "Why am I famous? Why do all these people seem to love me? I don't deserve it. I am a fraud." The anguished, neurotic internal monologue gets dramatized in self-destructive ways (drug overdoses, alcohol...
REV. HENRY LYONS A little confession is good p.r.: Baptist head thwarts challenge
One cannot think of any public statement of hers that was especially brilliant or witty. She was more innocent than clever; even her confession of an affair to a reporter sounded girlish. If pressed, few could say exactly what it was that made her so important, especially to people outside...