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...real heavy like Moakley"--John Moakley, the congressman who lost to Louise Day Hicks last year, had led the ballotting all night in his first try for City Council--"you're not going to do very well. It's the same with the black areas. We could have rung every doorbell and we still wouldn't have done any better than we would have just by doing the subway stations. That's why you have to play to your strength...
Sadomasochism. Still Uris' fictional caveats-rung in through Abe's conversations with his British publisher -seem absurdly at odds with his own wretched writing performance this time out. According to Uris, what most writers apparently forget is basic storytelling -a skill he himself once practiced but has neglected in this heavily predictable tale. Then there is that literary creation Author Abe himself, a mensh who makes Hemingway seem as mousy as Mann. Writing is heavy going for Abe. He throws himself into each book with such desperate energy that he is often "unable to lace his shoes...
...catch in Fauntroy's election is that he will be a nonvoting member of the House; he also becomes the 437th member, which places him on the last rung of the seniority ladder. Otherwise, he receives full congressional privileges, including an office with a staff of 13, an annual salary of $42,500, a vote on the House District of Columbia Committee (where he will likely be placed), and the right to introduce legislation...
However, the Tufts undergraduate newspaper the Observer reported yesterday that the alarm had been rung by a student who feared the fire would spread to the dormitories...
...rest of the cast-in Nora's worldly wise friend (Patricia Elliott) or in the doctor (Roy Shuman), who is paying mortally for the sins of his father, or in the unscrupulous moneylender (Robert Gerringer), who is trying to keep a slippery foot on the frayed bottom rung of the social ladder. All do the right things rightly...