Word: parkman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fiction is no small act of faith either. The historical novelist must believe that he can be adequately inspired by old documents when, in fact, his imagination is better served by direct experience. Moore cites as his sources eyewitness reports and church records used by 19th century Historian Francis Parkman for his classic The Jesuits in North America. The novelist does not mention that it is hard to improve on this enthralling narrative, with its zealous clerics snatching souls from "the fangs of the 'Infernal Wolf' " and its droll view of the New World. "These Canadian tribes," wrote Parkman, "were...
...trail, providing the author with the simplest means of moving his story and creating suspense. The main test of wills occurs hastily in the last 50 pages and contains a solar eclipse that frightens off hostile Indians just as they are about to kill the black robes of Ihonatiria. Parkman's history tells of a priest who knew enough astronomy to impress the natives with a prediction of an eclipse. Moore turns this event into a scene that belongs in the Movie of the Week...
...candidacy will not be in vain. He has managed to mobilize a major segment of the city's population that had been ignored by City Hall. And Ray Flynn knows that he will have to make a special effort to reach out to those groups, or his stay in Parkman House will be a short one indeed...
DESPITE WHAT those who think Boston is too bigoted say. Mel King could have won this election. Ray Flynn, too, is considered an outsider, and if he does win tomorrow he will become the first to reach Parkman House from South Boston...
...From Parkman House, the motorcade proceeded to the Harvard Club and then to two private meetings in Roxbury, a predominantly poor Black neighborhood...