Word: mcsorley
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...chronicled the city's more unconventional citizens, from workers at the Fulton Fish Market to the Mohawk Indians who toiled as high-altitude construction crews. In 1992 he capped his career with the best-selling Up in the Old Hotel, a compilation of four previous books, including the memorable McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, with its cockeyed gallery of barkeeps, preachers and gypsies...
Mitchell's reputation rests on four books: McSorley's Wonderful Saloon (1942), Old Mr. Flood (1948), The Bottom of the Harbor (1960) and Joe Gould's Secret (1965). They have been out of print for decades. But Pantheon Books has altered all that. Several years ago, the publishing house went through a convulsive change of management. Since then it has been the subject of intense debate and gossip. Could the new Pantheon survive under current business conditions? What kind of writers would it attract? If this anthology of Mitchell's best work is any indication, the publishers...
...lifetime of theatergoing one would be lucky to see a dozen ensembles this good or any that are better. Gerard McSorley has just the right grave detachment in both the narrator's long speeches and the round-eyed, wondering queries of a small boy. But the most memorable player is the one who has least to do. As the kindest and most dutiful sister, Brid Brennan sits at her knitting, soon to be rendered useless by machines, with a soft look of utter absence in her eyes...
...There's nothing on at all, it's actually rather tame. You'll find students in their rooms or on floor lounges," said Matthew J. McSorley, news editor of the B.U. Daily Free Press. "People are more keeping it to themselves...