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...John Principato, a UHS laboratory assistant, said last week he is contacting an attorney because the administration has not acknowledged complaints he lodged in April. Principato, worked in the bacteriology department for five years, said his supervisor continues to harass...
...Principato complained to the administration after his supervisor questioned him about his union involvement prior to the May 17 support staff union election. Federal labor laws prohibit employers from asking employees whether or not they intend to vote for a union and harassing employees for their union support. Principato went to the administration with that complaint, and also with charges that his supervisor had been harassing him for more than a year...
...REVEALED. Tom McHale, 40, irreverent writer of baroque novels that raged with comic lunacy and roared through the conflicts of middle-class Irish and Italian Catholics; by his own hand (carbon monoxide poisoning); on March 30; in Pembroke Pines, near Miami. McHale won critical praise for his first novels, Principato (1970) and Farragan's Retreat (1971), but six subsequent novels never reached that early level of achievement...
...effective anti-Catholics have been writers who were raised in the Catholic Church and left it, sometimes paroxysms of guilt. James Joyce's splendidly horrific descriptions of a Catholic boyhood in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man lent a certain romance to apostasy. In his novels Principato and Farragan 's Retreat, Tom McHale displayed a minor genius for the atmospherics of oppressive ethnic Catholicism. Among certain intellectuals, it is faintly disreputable to be a believing, practicing Catholic; a Catholic becomes spiritually interesting only in his repudiation of the faith...
...writing that can survive such pas sages deserves attention. Those who keep hoping that McHale.will return to the exuberant comedy and middle-class Catholic characters of his first two novels, Principato and Farragan's Retreat, will again be disappointed. McHale seems stubbornly determined not to repeat ear lier successes. In that respect, at least, The Lady from Boston succeeds. The novel will vex those who expect their reading matter to carry the freight of coherent meaning. Those who do not mind the voyeuristic experience of being interested but not concerned will find it a lot easier to take McHale...