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...toys carelessly slapped down to accommodate the easily distracted. There are the plots that are not plots but crisis situations on "which each character is obliged to comment, regardless of the triviality of his contribution. Above all, Drury writes the most impenetrable prose this side of a Japanese motorcycle manual rendered in English: "They all laughed, somewhat ruefully, but dauntless still; not noticing the flurry and excitement and sudden bustling all about that in the jostling, police-held crowd pressed up against the fence behind them, one other, gifted by a sometimes puzzling Almighty with the gift to change...
...Brien acquired his taste for Democratic politics as a boy orator campaigning for James Michael Curley, the four-term mayor of Boston. His early tactical work for former Governor Foster Furcolo and then for John Kennedy formed the rich expertise that was later embodied in the "O'Brien Manual," a 70-page codification of all his political know...
When Negroes first started taking jobs at State, says Stamps, they were regarded as mere musclemen. "The hospital wanted strong black bodies, seasoned by hard manual labor, to handle patients who hadn't been taken out of seclusion for years." Now, with no official upgrading, Stamps and the other strong men assist in electroshock treatments, guard narcotics supplies, give injections and other medications, take an active part in group-therapy sessions-and, by the doctors' insistence, must always be available to the patients. "Society is going to have to recognize that it's at least as important...
Precious Jewel. The Sabbath, on which manual labor is forbidden, presents another challenge for the kosher housewife. Friday is usually a day of frenzied activity-cleaning, shopping, preparing meals in advance for the tranquility and family intimacy of Saturday. There are some personal satisfactions. At sundown, after the wife lights the candles preceding the traditional Sabbath-eve dinner (typical menu: gefilte fish, matzoh-ball soup, chicken or beef, potato kugel), the husband often chants an ancient song of praise for his wife. Drawn from Proverbs 31, it begins: "A good wife who can find? She is far more precious than...
...they had come for the records, the invaders emptied the contents of four filing drawers into wire rubbish baskets. Then they carried them out the door and burned hem in a nearby parking lot, starting the blaze with napalm they had whipped up from a recipe in an Army manual. The Berrigan brothers- Daniel, 47 and Philip, 44- had struck again...