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Harvard downed the Elis, 8-6, and with wetheads boarded the bus home to face midterms,Halloween and the unusual prospect of failing toqualify for the Eastern championships...
...Loyd. After she lectures him, he agrees to get rid of his birds and give up cockfighting. There is enough fun in this novel, though, to balance its rather hectoring tone. Codi has a deft way of observing her small, remote hometown, caught uneasily between past and future. When Halloween arrives, she notes, "Grace was at an interesting sociological moment: the teenagers inhaled MTV and all wanted to look like convicted felons, but at the same time, nobody here was worried yet about razor blades in apples." And the matriarchs who make up the town sewing circle, called the Stitch...
Perhaps because victories come so rarely, they seem to unhinge the residents of Detroit. When the Tigers won the World Series in 1984, more than 100,000 fans ran deliriously into the streets, burning cars and looting shops. Each Halloween provides another excuse for Detroiters to vent high spirits, leaving extensive property damage in their wake. Last week, after the Pistons won a second straight professional-basketball championship, success once again proved more than Detroit could safely handle. In a long night of celebrations punctuated by gunfire, eight people were killed...
What adds a quaint, almost innocent flavor to this bygone controversy is the outmoded notion that department stores wait patiently until the end of Thanksgiving to unveil Santa's workshop. Now, of course, four-year-olds are still gorging on Halloween candy when the Saturday-morning ads begin their incessant shilling for Christmas toys. In a nation where the mall never palls and seven-days-a-week shopping seems enshrined as a civic religion, Thanksgiving stands out as an oasis of tranquillity and a reminder of the values that once tempered America's materialism. This Thursday give thanks...
...promise to remain celibate and support church teaching on the topic. But in practice, the barrier between homosexual orientation and homosexual activity is difficult to maintain. No doubt aware of that, the Vatican issued a sharp decree in October 1986 that is known among enraged gay Catholics as the "Halloween letter." The text warned that homosexual inclination tends "toward an intrinsic moral evil" and "must be seen as an objective disorder...