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...with its motto, "Home Rule," and its hope of working out a decent compromise through the parliamentary system. Yet how much more remote, how much more quaint must appear the Great Love that brought down Parnell and his cause-the ten-year affair he conducted with Katharine O'Shea, another Irishman's wife...
...than any other 19th century female (Queen Victoria excepted) was born Katharine Wood, the daughter of an Anglican vicar. "Look lovely and keep your mouth shut," her brother advised her, voicing the wisdom of the age. At 22 she married a horsy, socially acceptable Irishman named Willie O'Shea, known chiefly for his velvet jackets and his passion for get-rich-quick schemes-sulfur mines in Spain, railroad lines in Zululand. Katharine settled down to the role of conformist motherhood. But one day in 1880, when she was 35 and walking on the downs near Brighton, she asked herself...
...wasn't used to this stuff--I grew up a couple of miles from Shea Stadium, named for a hotshot New York lawyer, ultramodern, no bleachers. General Admission filled with clean-cut cheerful-looking kids whose mothers encouraged them to play at Little League, but just so it didn't interfere with their schoolwork. I got my wallet stolen, once, and my program lots of times--but after all I never really scored properly, S's for singles and O's for outs, so that seemed only fair, apart from the thieves' being bigger and stronger than I was. Maybe...
...writing planes, let alone the Fenway Frank ones, can seem friendly and informal--these two kids ran out into right field, opposite the green wall dividing Fenway from the city. The wall's thinness is something else I can't get used to. You take the subway out to Shea, too, all right, the elevated IRT jammed with happy kids and determined teenagers, but when you get there you're half a green mile from the Unisphere, at the end of Flushing Meadow Park. Fenway's just the opposite--all narrow streets and factories and warehouses. But the kids were...
...Brian Shea, a senior who played freshman soccer, agrees with Okerman that the J.V. programs should be maintained...