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...wasn't until he reached sixth grade, really, that Walter Sullivan got involved in politics. The year was 1935, and his father--Michael A. "Mickey the Dude" Sullivan--was making his first bid for the Cambridge city council. Walter, of course, was distributing palm cards, watching the railroad flare-processions, and helping out at the picnics. The lessons were not lost...
Marriage--to a Lawrence girl he'd known since first grade--and then the Second World War interrupted Kelleher's scholarly career. After a stint in the quartermaster corps, he was assigned to the Pentagon and military intelligence, which thought it needed an expert in Ireland. "They soon decided they didn't, and so I was switched to the Korea desk. I comforted myself with the thought that Korea must be the Ireland of Asia," he says...
Determined to find an explanation for her daughter's death, Vadala, who had dropped out of school after the seventh grade and had only recently passed a high school equivalency test, began reading medical texts, looking for clues. Then, thinking she could learn even more by working at a hospital, she began a one-year course to become a licensed practical nurse. The program offered on-the-job training at Baptist Hospital; when she graduated she joined the staff. In her free time, she inquired about procedures and the doctors who had cared for Becky...
...dark room. "I struck it on my shoe and, when the flame flared, I held it high up between Tessie's thighs to ascertain the what and the where. For no reason whatever, the girl popped straight up in the air screaming." He barely graduated from the eighth grade and was fired from every job his father got him until, at 21. he became a copy boy at the New York Daily News. He fell in love. "Silence. The sound of dust settling... I waited. It came-the dull tentative growl of presses. It was slow. It gathered confidence...
...anti-institutional bias has also been hard on oaths. So has that low-grade chronic ache (inflation, partly, and the erosion of dreams) that tells Americans so often that their society has not fulfilled its end of the social contract. Americans do not find themselves harmonizing much on Robert Frost's lonely, manly lines: "But I have promises to keep/ And miles to go before I sleep/ And miles to go before I sleep...