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...same sense of being in a region that has fallen out of time, Russo's comedies will be compared to William Kennedy's Albany series, Ironweed, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game and the rest. For now, Kennedy's writing is darker and grimmer, ^ and the resemblance is distant. Kennedy shows the skull beneath the skin; Russo gives us societal desiccation as farce...
Even if such a session doesn't make a mockery of academic rigor, advance question exams reward sloth and punish initiative. If you've loyally gone to class, you can expect a crescendo of phone calls from distant acquaintances starting in reading period and culminating two days before the exam. After a day or two the pattern becomes recognizable...
Despite some concrete achievements, however, the joint councils have a mandate more for discussion than for action, management is often still distant from workers and union members agree that not enough workers feel they are a part of the joint councils...
...three households are visited by supernatural visions. To the afflicted lover, a Wasp whose family name can be traced to the Middle Ages, ancestors appear; so does an angel. The Mormon wife is transported to distant spheres by a mystical street black who materializes and vanishes. Cohn is spooked by Ethel Rosenberg, the accused Soviet spy whose judicial execution he maneuvered for his patron, Red-hunting Senator Joseph McCarthy...
...tomorrow afternoon, when Harvard (12-2 overall) steps onto the field at Byrd Stadium in Maryland to duel top-ranked Virginia (13-1) in the NCAA semifinals, such memories will seem distant...