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...Boston-born author of this quirky, observant chronicle spent her 17th summer on Martha's Vineyard, working as a domestic for Lillian Hellman. The playwright, who by many accounts was a world-class harridan, once told a friend in her employee's hearing, "Well, I see the little Irish girl has set out the wrong dinner plates again." Mahoney's reaction was classic. "The remark -- which amounted to an epithet -- conjured images of a feckless, carrot-topped rustic with a camel's long lashes and a blush that traveled from throat to freckled hairline, awash in a sea of plates...
...Hellman did have one thing right: Mahoney is Irish and proud of it. In 1991 she spent 10 months on the old sod, sipping Guinness in drafty pubs and listening to people who often sound as if they had just strolled in from a Brian Friel play. Steeling herself for the unknown, Mahoney nervously checks out a lesbians-only night at a seedy Dublin bar. (Asked if she's gay, she lies and says yes.) She also attends a cell meeting of the fanatically Catholic Legion of Mary. Espied by the legionnaires as a potential recruit, she is asked...
...Hellman also took fifth place in the 50-yard freestyle...
Another Harvard record was broken in a smashing performance by the 200-yard freestyle relay team of Wagner, sophomore Jan Esway, junior Sean Gouldson and sophomore Dave Hellman, which captured first place with a time...
...Lawrence Broz, who is finishing his dissertation at the University of California, Los Angeles, well be assistant professor of international relations. Joel Hellman, presently a student at Columbia University, will be assistant professor in post-Soviet politics...