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...seems a shame, then, that Blades is going into Panama politics. He has a while yet to change his mind, which is good news for anyone who favors music with a hard edge and a hard swing. This fall Blades will move farther north, from his bachelor apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side to the cultivated wilds of Cambridge, Mass., where he will work for a master's degree in law at Harvard. "I am totally convinced that I am going to have a lot to do with the future of my country," he says...
...meaning of a throwaway line. Even when he wrote prose, he tended to operate by the laws of a romantic poet-packing in all the vivid details, then going for broke. He was a prodigious sufferer. He managed to embrace all the guilt there was to religion, all the shame there was in sex. He dressed in his own kind of sackcloth-sneakers, work pants, sweat-stained shirt. He allowed his teeth to rot. When anger and frustration built up in him, he would smash his fist into the nearest wall or bloodily shatter the glass he was holding. "Nearly...
...been out of Harvard Square) may want to look into Fine Arts S-183, "The Architecture of Boston." Focusing on the period from 1750 until World War II and on architects such as Bullfinch, Richardson, Olmstead, and Gropius, the course's field trips may put the Freedom Trail to shame...
...shame that Trevor has declined an excellent opportunity to chronicle one writer's Ireland, that he has shied away from the unabashedly personal and biased tour of Irish writers which this might have been. A journey such as this one, through the uneven evolution of Irish literature, is sorely in need of a provocative guide--a Kenneth Clark figure who would unashamedly saturate the text with the vagaries of personal taste. A Writer's Ireland is, rather, a dry, thorough skimming that leaves us without the real flavor of Ireland that so strongly pervades Trevor's fiction...
Incidentally, the last time I saw this all-too-common error in print was in 1981 when People magazine picked Carl Sagan as one of the ten sexiest men of the year, and described him as one of America's "leading astrologers," Shame. Timothy...