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Such gentle humor is set against a backdrop of tragedy. The year before Macon and Wife Sarah separate, their twelve-year-old son Ethan is among bystanders systematically shot and killed by hold-up men at a fast-food outlet. Baldly stated, the irony seems a tasteless contrivance: Son of Junk-Food Expert Slain ) at Burger Bonanza. But like Evelyn Waugh in A Handful of Dust and John Irving in The World According to Garp, Tyler uses the senseless loss of a child to refine feelings out of a parent's worst fears...
...unusual result is a comedy of mourning, an affirmation of attachments to the dead. Ethan visits his father in dreams; Leary's closest companion is Edward, his son's Welsh corgi. Unruly and nippy, the dog requires the services of Muriel, an obedience trainer at Meow-Bow kennel. She is an untypical breed in "truncated black suede boots with witchy toes and needle heels," a streetwise stray looking for a home. The Maryland working girl eventually gets a leash around Macon, who wants his wife back but breaks a leg and has to move in with his brothers and sister...
Members of the two singing groups agree that rivalry among the two exists but is not particularly fierce. Din and Tonics member Ethan C. Anderson '86 says, "We take a lot more chances than the Kroks. We did our first dance number this year." He adds, "There is definitely enough talent at Harvard to fill two or more singing groups...
Also night, the council clected Ethan H. Cohen 86 as treasurer. Cohen defected Kyung B. Lec '86 and Ellen Havdaln '83, who ran in abstentin, to fill the sent of Kenneth Shen, Shen plans to study in Tokyo next semester Melissa S. Lane '88 defeated incumbent Anne T. Robinson '88 to become the council's secretary
...student members are: Ethan Cohen '86; Richard Naimark, a first-year student at the Kennedy School; Barry Sleckman, a second-year student at the Medical School; and Gregory J. Gumina, a first-year law student...