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...decades, writers have followed James Joyce's characterization of Ireland as "the old sow that eats her farrow." But that is not the way of William Trevor. His novel takes place on Carriglas, a tiny island off the Irish coast, where a Protestant family's present griefs are rooted in the events of long ago. Sarah Pollexfen's cousins once cruelly terrorized the son of a tenant farmer; as a man he sought revenge with a bomb that accidentally killed the family butler. The servant's illegitimate child, product of a liaison with a Catholic maid, survives him. When...
Native wildflowers are also resistant to coaching and threats. Actress Helen Hayes, a dirty-fingernails, hands-and-knees gardener, recently decided to sow wildflowers like those she remembers seeing from train windows as she toured the country with her plays. "They won't bow to one's wishes," she says with grudging admiration. "They don't want to be tamed. That must be the reason these darling, lovely little things won't cooperate...
...make matters worse, the latest electoral invention, the concatenation of primaries and caucuses known as Super Tuesday, loomed as a fulfillment of the Law of Unintended Consequences. Rather than give the South a major role in selecting nominees who reflected the region's more conservative leanings, it threatened to sow further confusion by enhancing candidates with no chance of being elected. For the Democrats, ironically, Super Tuesday looked in advance as though it might give lifts to the very Northern and liberal candidates the South had been hoping to diminish...
...future course, though, is dim. Money for permanent national teams is nowhere in sight. Nor are N.H.L. owners lining up to lend their Gretzkys to the national Olympic efforts. Right now, in fact, the owners reap far more than they sow, with more than 20 Olympic veterans about to enter their organizations. The hottest rumor: star Soviet Defensemen Vyacheslav Fetisov and Aleksei Kasatonov might join the New Jersey Devils, a sublime irony after years of Soviet state-paid shamateurism...
Rarely seen in public since his defection in 1963, Philby appeared on Latvian television to denounce Western interference in the Baltic. Speaking English with a Russian voice-over, he charged that the West uses Latvian nationalists to sow dissension. His words carry a certain authority. Philby headed British operations against Moscow's agents from 1944 to 1947. His performance, together with police action and counterdemonstrations by Communist Party loyalists, may have had its effect. Last week's demonstrations were desultory compared with protests earlier this year...