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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Irish Nationalist Catholic parish in Cambridge, Mass.--learning to see through the glamor and romance that surround the struggle in Ulster is an unusually difficult process. Like so many Irish-Americans, O'Neill has been raised by his good Catholic parents to view the agony of Ulster as a sort of holy war against the last vestiges of British heathenism--a holy war that demands support from the entire Catholic world...
INMAN SQUARE HAS BECOME a sort of flower-case cultural center in Cambridge. Like an old gem in an awfully tacky setting, this confluence of streets dimly shines out of the decaying sprawl of industrial and residential space that is East Cambridge. In recent years, Inman Square has become the site of several good bars, some firstclass restaurants and a dinner theater. Last Wednesday the venerable intersection established further claim to its position in Cambridge's cultural firmament with the opening of the Off-Broadway Theatre on Hampshire Street, in the garage-like structure that was the home...
Center for Disease Control virologists and immunologists, as well as officials at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in Washington, have been debating for a month what sort of flu vaccine should now be produced and in what quantities. Their decisions are expected to be announced soon...
...Peter De Vries character once described a literary intellectual as the sort who put his audience into a bathysphere and took them down three feet. He could not have met Leslie Fiedler, who, along with Norman Mailer, is one of the most daring skinny-dippers in U.S. literary and social criticism. Throughout a long career that includes some brilliant fiction (Nude Croquet, 1969), Fiedler has boldly led his readers down whirlpools of the national subconscious. In Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), he argued that the country's literature was obsessed with death and therefore incapable...
...most obvious, the book is a natural history of dwarfs, giants, hermaphrodites, Siamese twins, mutants, the monstrously fat, the grotesquely thin, dog-faced boys and zoophagous geeks. But the richly illustrated work is in fact a combination sideshow, meditation on human nature and medical textbook of the sort that librarians once kept locked away with scandalous volumes like Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis...