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Thus does the amazing saga of the Harvard Football Road Show continue. An overflow Homecoming Day crowd of 16,000--close to the largest in Cary Field history--watched the gridders click for their fourth win in four outings away from Cambridge, compared with an 0-3-1 ledger at home...
...saga of the melting pot might rest as the most endearing of America's legends to its people, but only the most skilled raconteur of folklore could possibly weave the country's many pasts into a common present. The vestiges of a divided history appear all around us: ethnic differences often distinguish rioting, mob violence, and political lobbying as they do styles of eating and dressing. Yet, the vast divergence in living standards afflicting the country remains as the most constant reminder of our schizophrenic heritage. A visit to Roxbury or South Boston will show which ethnic group...
WITH HER NEW NOVEL, An Indecent Obsession, Colleen McCullough appears to have forsworn the model for guaranteed success she patented four years ago. With The Thorn Birds she proved she knows how to tell a good tale; as soon as her sweeping saga of love and tragedy on the Australian Outback was released, there was no doubt that it would be a hit. Whether you read it with one eye on the kids as they built sand castles on the Jersey shore or saved it to consume during coffee breaks, the epic sucked you in with its portrayal...
...saga of Pinocchio became immortalized in more than 80 languages; fans of the marionette, whose nose grew when he told a lie, claim that no other book except the Bible has been read in so many tongues. No one knows how many copies have been sold, but the total is in the tens of millions. There have been 256 editions in Italian alone, printed by 72 different publishers, and more than 100 English editions...
...plotting, the first two hours evoke a world that can still outrage us. In America, however, there is no unknown corner of history to illumine. Ireland thus becomes less a symbol than a storymaker's device. Events rush together, plot overwhelms character, acting turns to shouting, and the saga sags...