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...DERMOT DUNPHY, BUSINESSMAN, NEW YORK CITY...
...field as dominated by whites as fuel-oil service. In May 1970, Charles Wallace was a struggling black businessman on the verge of bankruptcy. He knew little about accounting and finance, and was further handicapped by poor sources of supply and inadequate equipment. Finally he called on Dermot Dunphy and a group of volunteer consultants to minority entrepreneurs, which is run by the Harvard Business School Club of New York. Dunphy sat down with Wallace, broke his problems down into separate categories, then called on volunteers to handle each area. They helped find the proper oil sources...
...cool voices that weave in and out. "My body is walking in space/ My soul is in orbit with God, face to face," the eerie voices tell us, and we can believe in their moonglow-bathed hallucinations. But no sooner is the mood established, than composer Galt Mac Dermot and lyricists Gerome Ragni and James Rado destroy it by tipping their hats to the Times Square crowd. All of a sudden the chorus hippies are yelling out a catalogue of hallucinatory cliches ("Red Light! White light. Your skin is soft!")--and the music descends into vulgarized pop-isms reminiscent...
...Brien's anarchic foray against the foolishness of fact begins with a university student who is trying to write a realistic novel between courses at the National University. It is a glum, pompously polysyllabic work which gets out of hand because the main character is Dermot Trellis, described as "an eccentric author," a publican who has "conceived the project of writing a salutary book on the consequences that follow wrongdoing." Trellis' characters, in turn, include Fergus MacPhellimey, a "pooka," which is some sort of leprechaun, and John Furriskey, whose task it is to attack women and behave...
YESTERDAY (118 pp.)-Maria Dermot -Simon & Schuster...