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MISS MARGARIDA'S WAY by Roberto Athayde When the letter E is reached on the hurricane list, the storm should be named Estelle. As the teacher of the play's title, Estelle Parsons portrays a woman of blistered paranoia and feverish sexual frustration who qualifies as a blackboard Himmler to an eighth-grade biology class...
Although he is a connoisseur of Mediterranean islands, Durrell sometimes seems to be laboring as hard as his red tour bus grinding up the mountain switchbacks. The reader must listen to Roberto, a wise and tactful Sicilian guide, discoursing on the first-aid kit aboard the bus; there is a pause while the French ladies buy postcards...
Carew has also settled into the Twin Cities. Last spring he won the Roberto Clemente Award, given annually to the major league player who has done distinguished community service. The honor is bestowed for a player's public acts-heading fund drives and the like. But private and unpublicized deeds most distinguish Carew's style. He regularly travels to the Mayo Clinic to visit patients. Once he had a run-in with a traffic cop who pointedly called him "boy" as he wrote up the ticket. The policeman later had the temerity to ask Carew to visit...
...Arkansas where locals watch college students do or die for old John Brown University; to a seedy ballpark in Pittsfield, Mass., where a minor league team plays to empty stands; to a sun-hammered field in Puerto Rico where children try to emulate the feats of the late Roberto Clemente; to Cincinnati, where a country boy named Johnny Bench has parlayed his skills as a catcher into a million dollars worth of endorsements and franchise arrangements. The resulting collection of interviews and observations is an affectionate, and at times painfully accurate evocation of the game-and its recent erosions...
...superb Arkansas small college team, have the talent but little opportunity; while there are those with even less chance. The eager, almost fanatical youngsters of Puerto Rico, where youth baseball has been uncorrupted by the small-time ambitions of fat Little League coaches, all hope to follow their idol, Roberto Clemente, with a pathetic fervor. Pathetic because, for all their talent, Puerto Ricans make it only if they are stars; white owners do not like many Puerto Rican bench jockeys...