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...town of Torquay, the child of a well-born Englishwoman and an affable American expatriate who let his wealth evaporate in the hands of remote, incompetent New York brokers. She was a much-loved but solitary child who entertained herself effortlessly, playing for hours in the garden, bowling her hoop along the stations of three imaginary railway lines: "Lily of the Valley Bed. Change for the Tubular Railway here. Tub. Terminus. All change." Twelve years ago, when she completed this book at 75, she remembered every invisible platform...
Although nobody expects America to return to the days of the hoop skirt, a number of experts do see signs that the wildest expressions of sexual "liberation" may be ending. "I think there's a shift back not toward conservatism but toward an end of sexuality for sexuality's sake," says Jack S. Boozer, professor of religion at Emory University in Atlanta. "What you had in the '60s was like being thrown into a forest and told there was no infallible reference point, everything was equal. The person in that forest is just as culturally deprived...
...matinee and evening performances. Bit question is whether Master Heimert will ride the Zamboni machine again...Kirkland added the co-edtouch football crown with a 9-7 win over Winthrop earlier this week.... Quincy topped K-House in the soccer championship, pulling out a 1-0 OT thriller...Intramural hoop and hockey to start slates right after Thanksgiving...
...pepper, days of the first push for voter registration down in Darkest Alabama and if you were one of the chosen ones, one of the lucky knee-grow winners in the Great White Liberal Guilt Sweepstakes you could do no wrong. Of course, shooting a righteaous game of hoop...didn't hurt any either...
...TAKES REAL CHUTZPAH to write an autobiography, a trait the Redhead (as Auerbach is affectionately known) obviously does not lack. The book details his entire life, from his youth in Brooklyn to his current duties with the Celtics. Nothin in between is left out. Nothing. Red rises from college hoop star to gym teacher to coach, bouncing from team to team in the early years of the NBA until he lands in Boston. He has had a very nice life, but it is impossible to read this book without thinking how irrelevant a life, too. What has this man done...