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Though racial prejudice is not one of the easiest table-pounding topics to laugh at, Bruce Jay Friedman made it appallingly funny two years ago in his memorable first novel, Stern. The book's pathetic hero is a middle-class urban Jew with round shoulders and "pale spreading hips," who moves his sexy wife and lonely child out to the suburbs...
Dawn broke cold and grey. Calm in its majesty beside the Thames, the palace of Westminster emerged from the drifting mist. Across the river stood the starkly modern outline of Festival Hall, its garden windows catching the first pale light. Far downstream, the dome and finial of St. Paul's Cathedral were faintly etched against the wintry sky. Between these two points, Westminster and St. Paul's, gathered a million men and women and the children they brought with them to capture the scene in memory. Via Telstar and television, millions the world over watched the obsequies...
...unreasonably long time. Majestically I raised my hand for a crescendo, and only when it reached its peak did I recall the national anthem." Returning to his cello, he found it like "a piece of furniture I had never seen before . . . Its import seemed pale in comparison to the reception of my conducting." Disturbed that "the little baton had such an easy victory over my Stradivari," he has resisted the spell of the magic wand ever since...
...Buddhists in Hué, took up positions sitting or lying side by side inside Saigon's main pagodas. It was hardly a bed of nails. Their pallets were comfortable foam-rubber mattresses draped with mosquito netting. Beside the fasters were handy slices of fruit and glasses of pale, cold tea, prompting a young monk to explain that liquid was "allowed." As for the fruit-well, er, uh, no comment...
...Spanish Steps. A shy, pale, hulking figure, "Bernie" Lonergan is a much-storied underground legend among Catholic intellectuals. Born in Buckingham, Quebec, near the Ontario border, he decided to enter the Jesuits at 17, studied at his society's Heythrop College near Oxford and at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University. He spent 13 years teaching theology at Jesuit seminaries in Canada before moving to "the Greg" in 1953. There he follows a life as precisely organized as his thought. He teaches or writes from 8 until lunch, and after his siesta takes an hour-long walk that never...