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...Marilyn Monroe, and he has mastered the art of eliciting a much vaster response with much less effort. Marilyn: a biography by Norman Mailer with pictures by the World's Greatest Photographers has made shock waves which have surpassed those the author is accustomed to creating in the literary pond, and has indeed touched the fancy of the masses...
...Unionists with a penny in every pond and the Catholics who simply boycotted everything," declared Phyllis Kerr, a canvasser for Northern Ireland's moderate Alliance Party last week. "There just had to be a day when something came cracking down the middle." That day may finally be dawning in Ulster politics. After four years of violence, more and more people seem to be coming around to the belief that a strong political center-something that has seldom existed in Northern Ireland-could heal the wounds created by religious polarization...
...favorite gathering place for the young people is the knoll overlooking the 16th hole. The 16th is a 190-yard par three with a long pond as its fairway. Middle-aged and elderly people are among the crowd, but no one seems to notice. "It is almost as if they are not there," a high school girl said...
Henry David Thoreau went into the woods to confront what he grandly called "the essential facts of life." Spartan-like, he observed flowers blooming, raindrops falling, seasons changing. Of course, the essential facts of Thoreau's life included Emerson's loan of the cabin site at Walden Pond and such genteel activities as frequent walks into Concord for civilized conversation and home cooking. H.D.T. had it both ways, which is more than can be said for the nature he wrote about. The shadow of the surveyor and his Damoclean plumb bob had already fallen across the land...
...million "joint venture" of the Cambridge Electric Light Company and the Boston Edison Company would establish a bulk energy receiving station on the former location of the Fresh Pond drive-in theater on Alewife Brook Parkway...