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Harper & Row; 527 pages; $18.95 We are put here to become saints," Dorothy Day declared, and with braid-crowned head thrust back and lanky arms flailing, she marched through life as if being a saint were the least of it. This fierce woman, this muscular Christian, founded and edited the intransigently radical Catholic Worker. She suffered prison zestfully for her conscience, as suffragist and pacifist. At 15 she demonstrated with the farm workers of Cesar Chavez and went to jail for one last time. The old lady's picture in the papers made almost too pat a portrait...
...beginning, nobody could have seemed less like a saint. Born in Brooklyn in 1897, the daughter of a lapsed Episcopal mother and an atheistic father whose holy passion was the race track, Day did not even become a Catholic until she was 30. At 15 she was reading Darwin. Marx soon followed. After dropping out of the University of Illinois, she went to work for $5 a week for a socialist daily, the Call, on New York's Lower East Side. One of her first assignments was to interview Leon Trotsky. Before she was 20, she became an editorial...
...duty of a saint to be happy," she concluded. That may be the one duty she shirked. -ByMelvinMaddocks
...hoisted over the island capital of Port Stanley when a set of new, potentially more formidable problems emerged. Three days after Britain's triumph, Argentina's top generals ousted President Leopoldo Fortunate Galtieri. He was temporarily replaced as President by yet another general, Interior Minister Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean, and as army chief by Major General Cristino Nicolaides. Said Galtieri, following his removal from power: "I am going because the army did not give me the political support to continue." In fact, Galtieri's fall may have been hastened by crowds of a very different sort from...
...young dark-haired native has been in charge since the place first opened. Speaking as he meticulously cleans the glass counters he explains that he first entered the vending business in high school, working the aisles inside the park. Now, shunning his own wares for a light purple Yves Saint-Laurent shirt and designer jeans. Picardi explains that he's "not a wild fan." He quickly adds that. "I hope the best for the Red Sox, but I watch very, very few games. I guess when you're around it so much, it kind of loses its attraction...