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...John F. Mahoney, 21, of Malden, will be charged with assault and battery today in Cambridge Third District Court in connection with the attack on the Harvard senior, according to the police report. Charges against Mahoney may be upgraded to include assault and battery with intent to commit mayhem (violently inflicting a bodily injury), police said...
...Mahoney did not return repeated calls to his home in Malden yesterday...
...senior said Mahoney started the fightwithout provocation. "He accused me of making funof him or something like that. I had no idea whathe was talking about, then a fight broke out," thestudent said...
These interviews, alas, seem rather stiff and dutiful. Mahoney's impressions of everyday life, by contrast, are as bracing as May mornings in Corofin, the West Clare town where she lived alone in a darkling castle worthy of the Addams family. She is puzzled by the chronic lateness of the Irish, for whom a 7 o'clock appointment can mean any time at all. She delights in their colorful nicknames -- Mickey the Bridge for a man who lives near one. Irish men are often regular churchgoers, she notes, even though they might lurch into the pews for a Saturday-evening...
...Mahoney has an infallible ear for the spoken word and an eye for telling detail. Whoredom's vignettes are encased in prose so pellucid and evocative that readers may want to stop and reread passages just to savor their rhythms and imagery. Take a look back at Mahoney's reaction to Lillian Hellman's remark about "the little Irish girl." You could do a ton of reading before catching a sentence as fierce and fine as that...