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...fight. And he was buried in an IRA graveyard next to hundreds of others who knew the same thing, and were right. There are more starving themselves right now, though they know by Sands' example that the British will never give in. Frankie Hughes, Patsy O'Hara, Raymond McCreesh, they'll sing songs about these men, too, and the death of each will bring 100 more recruits...
These whimsical, if melancholy, statistics are cited by Market Strategist Raymond DeVoe, 51, writing in the April issue of Inc., a magazine for the small businessman. Serious passion, DeVoe has found, is even more pricey than casual dalliance. A candlelight dinner at an excellent New York restaurant, about $18 then, now costs $80 (up 344%). If music be the food of love, one might be tempted to tell the circling violinists to play on. The problem is the tip: $5, up 900% from the 50? that would have satisfied a '50s fiddler. Dom Perignon champagne, to celebrate a month...
Secure in their eastern Tennessee mill town and its surrounding valley, Emily and Sally Prince play childhood games with Raymond and Jed Tatro. They are joined by Donny Tatro, who is not related to the other boys, although their ancestors once owned his; Donny is black. High school and adolescence break the original ties that bound this group together. Donny is firmly segregated elsewhere, while Emily and Raymond turn out to be misfits and loners; she is gawky and plays basketball, while he collects stamps and mopes around in rayon shirts and reindeer sweater vests. Only Sally and Jed thrive...
...Emily, Raymond and Donny I wind up in New York, all seeking freedom from the constraints of the " South and all baffled by the impersonality and rootlessness of the big city. They are easy touches for any groups that offer them companionship and forgiveness for the site of their births: "One of the South's inadequacies, Emily had decided, was to instill in its children the ability to listen politely while people dumped on their homeland." Donny eventually falls in with a black power cadre in Harlem. Raymond and Emily join a group of civil rights activists who dress...
...effect, to put her characters through paces that occasionally seem dictated rather than inevitable. But such lapses are more than offset by the novel's page-turning verve and intelligence. Alther knows that no theory or ideology can account for the cussed complexities of daily life. As Emily, Raymond and the rest stumble from one ism to another, their author both mocks their blindness and applauds their determination to keep searching. She gives generously, both to her readers and to the children of her imagination...