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Never has Oxford Philosopher Murdoch staged more perfervid rituals, or composed more coolly brilliant commentaries upon them, than in The Black Prince. As usual, the master spell is love. The book's narrator is a 58-year-old failed writer named Bradley Pearson. Grinding his teeth in silence, Bradley has been waiting for the moment of absolute inspiration. Nothing less will do. His cursed Doppelgdnger, his best friend, is Arnold Baffin, a fluent hack who turns out popular novels with religious overtones while Bradley grubs away in a tax inspector's office. Freedom is the cruel lure...
...thieves crossed into Boston, with Hughes and Pearson in pursuit. The chase ended when the men crashed their car into two parked cars and stopped in the middle of the street. The police seized two of the men, but the third escaped by foot...
...Allan D. Hughes and patrolman Harold E. Pearson of the Cambridge Police, who were dispatched to the scene of the crime after University police notified their Cambridge counterparts of the thefts, sighted the suspects driving a stolen Buick on Mass Ave. and signaled them to stop...
...Mississippi River system received as much as three times their average rainfall. There were no spectacular storms-just day after day of precipitation, until the earth, already saturated by abnormally heavy winter rains and early spring thaws, could absorb no more. "We were one-inched to death," explained Allen Pearson, director of the National Severe Storm Forecast Center. The runoff gradually distended the Mississippi's major tributaries-in particular the Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and lower Missouri-until they jumped their banks last week...
Across the concourse in Chicago, Dennis Pearson sits in a beach chair behind his entry, a 1967 El Camino pickup truck chromed and painted and gussied up into a real showstopper. Pearson, 26, a stocky, crew-cut body-shop owner from Louisville, began a year ago to repair the engine in his truck and maybe do a little body work. Some $6,000 and "a helluva lotta hours" later, he hitched up the truck behind his station wagon, packed in his wife Bernadene and their four-year-old daughter Zandra and entered the exhibition circuit. In Detroit he picked...