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...since 1939, when a Harvard lad wearing skirts won the Wellesley College hoop-rolling contest, had the tweedy, well-heeled people of Wellesley, Mass. (pop. 26,071), been so riled up. Tempers boiled; upstanding citizens denounced one another in public meetings, over TV and in newspaper ads. The issue: a proposal to put sodium fluoride in Wellesley's drinking water. In the upshot, the generally well-off and well-educated citizenry of Wellesley voted down the proposal emphatically. along with two neighboring towns, Brookline and Andover...
...work, but when he turns to politics, the devil makes him dictator. For all his new-found power, Jose still admires only talent, and he has a collection of great talents on the way to perform in his privately owned nightclub-a Billy Graham-type U.S. evangelist, a Cuban lad whose only skill is sexual proficiency, a cynical ventriloquist. Author Gary manages to have his way about the failure...
...road 45 miles from the scene of the escape. Perhaps, suggested the Katangese, Lumumba was trudging through the bush in the hope of reaching Bukamu, a Katanga town held by the pro-Lumumba rebels. But this was 200 miles away, a tough week's walk for a city lad like Lumumba...
Early in the book, for example, the reader meets a pubescent lad who talks Elizabethan. Asked when his parents will return from the movies, he replies: "Not till the witching hour methinks, or worse. For no more will th' embattled hombres make their peace in the mesa'd West, their smoking armaments put by, than Cary Grant will post him through such feats as Hitchcock doth concoct." Pretty chilling, but De Vries really sets in a little later when a maiden solemnly informs her swain that "It would be terrible to be regarded as a child-bearing machine...
...this one kills his cousins, and that one kills his dad; and, as they hang by dozens at Ludlow, lad by lad...