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...FERGUS by Brian Moore. 228 pages. Holt, Rinehart, & Winston...
...Fergus shows him at the top of his form. The title hero-like the obviously prototyping author ego behind him-is Belfast-born, Hollywood-drawn and Malibu-quartered. The fictional Fergus is a novelist in the throes of divorce and debilitating screen work. He is also hopelessly involved with a young, free-spirited mistress. So far, so familiar as a portrait of the built-in plights that afflict writer-in-California residence...
...clergymen have no monopoly on imagination. In British Columbia, Bishop Fergus O'Grady founded "the Frontier Apostolate," in which 174 volunteers serve as a kind of Far North VISTA for Catholic and non-Catholic alike in O'Grady's farflung diocese. In Lima, Peru, 100 young priests drafted a proposal of revolutionary social reforms, calling for the church to set the example. Surprisingly, Juan Cardinal Landázuri Ricketts moved out of his mansion and into a modest working class district. In Isolotto, outside Florence, suspended priest Don Enzo Mazzi (TIME, Dec. 27, 1968) is still holding his open-air Masses...
...fourth meet record was set by Fergus Murray of Oxford, who loped the the two mile in 8:44. Harvard's Doug Hardin placed third, and his 8:48 time till set a Harvard record...
...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 at all times in an "indecent manner...