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Leading the Brandeis offense were outfielder Jim DiCarlo, who scored both the first and last runs, and catcher Mike Finnegan, who popped a single and a double in four at bats and registered three runs batted...
...Finnegan Awake...
...House Ways and Means Committee chairman, John F. Finnegan, however, is more doubtful the bill will be passed by the lower chamber...
White has good relations with the legislative leadership but trouble may arise. Along with Timilty, the school committee will fight the proposals and committee member David Finnegan's brother is a powerful House chairman. However, last December the State House rejected White's pleas for a financial bail-out (Boston's property taxes jumped by 25 per cent this year) and this has increased the pressure to accede to White's demands. It is expected that White will get the needed votes and the signature of Governor Michael Dukakis, who is usually amenable to home rule petitions...
...common reader, Beckett is really not linguistically obscure. His care in translation demonstrates his commitment to ordinary, idiomatic language, both English and French. His own work clearly departs from the ideals of Joyce, whose Finnegan's Wake he so strongly praises: "You complain that this stuff is not written in English. It is not written at all. It is not to be read--or rather it is not only to be read...His writing is not about something; it is that something itself." Both artists create this inseparable unity of form and content, but Beckett, unlike Joyce, does not orchestrate...