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...Channel--The Blushing Brides, Al Halliday and the Hurricanes...
Repulsed by Tucker's methods and motives, Barclay flees from country to country. Through Tucker's persistence, though, Barclay learns more and more about his pursuer. Tucker, an emmisary from Astrakhan College in Nebraska, has been given a special commission by a man named Halliday, a patron of the school, to write Barclay's official biography. Halliday likes Barclay because of an admission in one of his books to "liking sex but having no capacity for love." Barclay, remembering that he wrote the sentence simply to record a stray idea, is confused and disgusted by Tucker's persistence...
...between hard covers? Barclay postpones the answer by escaping once again into aimless, inebriated travel, leaving a trail of bogus forwarding addresses. By this point, Golding reaches for his old standby, the clamoring metaphysical question. Does Barclay flee because he is afraid of being saved or damned? Who is Halliday, the mysterious American billionaire who has given Tucker seven years to win Barclay upi as a trophy? Broad hints are dropped that the author and the critic have begun to exchange identities. Barclay asks the American: "How come you speak the way you do, Rick? Years and years in England...
...widely abhorred, when such men prey sexually on young girls, sometimes barely past infancy, in the household. Some examples: ¶"All the time my father would be having sex he would be telling me I really liked it or telling me what a great body I had," writes Linda Halliday, 36, in The Silent Scream, her autobiographical account of how her father had regular intercourse with her, as well as with her three sisters, from the time she was seven until she was 16. "I would fight the waves of vomit that washed over my body but never made...
...that glory, at least for now, is history. This year's squad is a lot less big and a lot less awesome than usual. Gone are such heroes of yesteryear as Charlie Bott, Al Halliday. Roy Roberts and Mark Cooley. They're legends now, consigned to an era which may very well go down in the books as Harvard rugby's Golden...