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Price, today a paraplegic from cancer of the spine, cites Freud's comment that the most important day of a man's life is the day his father dies. It may have been the day that Reynolds Price truly became the writer he hoped...
...most of the things he learned to use later: family, sports, conflict, movies. The young jock wrote stories -- he tried to compile a book based on letters and tapes Dan sent back from Viet Nam -- and went to the movies. "Great heroism, great love stories sent chills down my spine," he recalls. "I was particularly intrigued by 'dilemmas.' To me, drama is dilemma -- the fight not to do something. A dilemma is wanting to kiss a woman and not doing it. Once you do it, it's 'action.' Action is fine. I understand what it's about. But you have...
...innocently sitting at my desk, reading my roommate's diary, when a horrible chill swept up my spine. I spun around to discover that the precious piece of cloth which has rested upon my pillow for 19 years was missing. No Blankie...
...have to have sex with all the members? Well, how many does she have left? How can Joe be in the Pi? Isn't there a minimum drinking requirement? Besides, I thought he was cut from the team. Oh, I hope Mary tells us another spine-tingling tale of action and adventure involving her research on cell division...
Most Cambridge development has occurred along what Sullivan calls "the spine of the, city"--the transit lines along Mass. Ave. The concentration of hotels and high-rises in areas like Harvard and Kendall Squares, he says, is the result of a conscious effort to keep projects out of residential areas...