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...wrong with the priest too. Shepherd has suffered a heart attack, and he is preoccupied with his own mortality. He clings to time as if to fend off eternity, but does little with it. He sits for hours in front of the rectory television set, resentful of parishioners who disturb him with their problems, unmindful that their private griefs are real wounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Body of Christ | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

...crazed club pro madly driving his golf balls into the fairway--that the reader has no idea which to follow, which to ignore. Will Barrett, Percy's protagonist, leads a remarkably untroubled life, driving his Mercedes 450 SEL to the golf course and then back home. Only memories disturb his endowed existence: as This Second Coming unfolds he mentally pieces together the events of a day in his early teens when, out on a hunting trip, his father tried simultaneously to kill him and to commit suicide...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Anticlimactic Apocalypse | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...crazed club pro madly driving his golf balls into the fairway--that the reader has no idea which to follow, which to ignore. Will Barrett, Percy's protagonist, leads a remarkably untroubled life, driving his Mercedes 450 SEL to the golf course and then back home. Only memories disturb his endowed existence: as This Second Coming unfolds he mentally pieces together the events of a day in his early teens when, out on a hunting trip, his father tried simultaneously to kill him and to commit suicide...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Anticlimactic Apocalypse | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

...crazed club pro madly driving his golf balls into the fairway--that the reader has no idea which to follow, which to ignore. Will Barrett, Percy's protagonist, leads a remarkably untroubled life, driving his Mercedes 450 SEL to the golf course and then back home. Only memories disturb his endowed existence: as This Second Coming unfolds he mentally pieces together the events of a day in his early teens when, out on a hunting trip, his father tried simultaneously to kill him and to commit suicide...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Anticlimactic Apocalypse | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

Businesses lining Mass Ave from the new Out of Town News stand (another by-product of the change) to Davis Square were worried that the construction would cut down on their clientele and disturb normal operations...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Subway Line Extension Brings Changes to Square | 8/15/1980 | See Source »

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