Word: setonism
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...John's Rutgers, and Princeton all went to the post-season NCAA tournament last season and remain formidable quintets. Manhattan advanced to the finals of this year's Holiday Festival. Seton Hall was edged by Holy Cross in the Madison Square Garden Classic last week, but boasts the nation's fifth leading scorer in Glenn Mosley. Even St. Francis, a small school without a winning team in ten years, won a Christmas tournament at Bentley...
Each team in the New Jersey-New York Seven conference of Fordham, Manhattan, Rutgers, St. John's, Seton Hall, Columbia, and LIU seems stronger than the next. The picture wouldn't be complete unless one adds Hofstra, Iona, and St. Francis to the list...
...Seton Hall's Glenn Mosely leads the ECAC in scoring while the Manhattan Jaspers boast. Ricky Marsh and Steve Grant. Bob Fazio at St. Peter's is yet another all-American candidate. The polls tag Hofstra as the best in the East, as the Flying Dutchmen feature Richie Laurel, Bernard Tomlin, and John Irving...
Despite these ingredients of fictional disaster-plus a temptation to relate everything to "feminism"-A Fine Romance deserves a reading. Seton makes such charming, well-written excuses for her clichés: "There's an inherent plotlessness one has to contend with in the lives of civilized people, you see. Their marriages, divorces, are muted, cerebral. It puts a heavy burden on love affairs, do you see? They're the only credible climax left...
...when proper Dr. Winters finally thaws with Alexia Reed, 35, who boasts "remarkable reddish-gold hair, green eyes, and a smacking style"? Hardly. But by then there's been a lot of lively conversation about Homer, Proust, Darwin and parenting, and Sicilian temples. Everybody talks just beautifully on Seton's bus. "The answer to the problem of alienation, to the difficulties of building a sense of community," she writes, "may be to put people on buses." It's not a bad way to keep an amiable but wobbling novel from going over a Sicilian cliff, either...