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...progress. In this first novel, Theodore Weesner's tones are flat, sometimes excessively precise. Yet the book develops a building power. It is, for one thing, an achievement of almost perfect sympathy. One begins caring about Alex-his guilt, his daydreams, his bewildered adolescent innocence. Descendants of Huckleberry Finn, Alex and his brother do cannonball dives into the polluted muck of an urban river, cracking exuberant and forlorn scatological jokes about what they are swimming...
...working-class South Boston community of Dorchester, where Troy sat, there was a growing feeling that the judge was becoming a local tyrant who dispensed a highly personal brand of justice. "Troy's heavy hand touches everyone in the community," said Donna Finn, a young mother and one of Troy's strongest critics. "If they haven't been in his court themselves, they have relatives or neighbors who have." But what could they...
Last year Mrs. Finn and other young activists in a group called The People First collected 10,000 signatures in support of Troy's removal. In 28 affidavits drawn up with the help of the Boston Legal Assistance Project, lawyers and law students accused Troy of denying defendants everything from the right to remain silent to the right to cross-examine. More recently, three different federal and state judges reviewing Troy decisions went out of their way to criticize his performance. In one case he was found to have been "both accuser and judge" of two men charged with...
...once again and decided once more not to commit itself. It did hint that if the Bar Association formally requested Troy's disbarment, somebody might then be willing to fire him. All of which left the militant members of The People First somewhat frustrated. "Just look," said Mrs. Finn. "Troy's still on the bench...
...called "the emotional response" that he needs when he gets so "very lonely" while traveling. Cornelia, who is 33 (19 years younger than her husband), is smart, ambitious for both him and herself and experienced in the ways of politics. Although she sees herself more as "a Huck Finn" than "a Southern belle," her favorite fictional heroine is Scarlett O'Hara. "You saw what she did with that lumber company," Cornelia recently recalled. "When she had to, she took over that business and made a success of it. She made do for herself." In the face of her husband...