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...SWEENEY ASTRAY by Seamus Heaney; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 96 pages...
...digging has thus far unearthed five volumes of poetry, including the bestseller Field Work (1979). Sweeney Astray, to be published next May by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, provides a festival of Heaneyan contradictions. The hero is a modernist ideal: wounded, cunning, lyrical and deranged. His name inescapably recalls T.S. Eliot's Irish vulgarian "Apeneck Sweeney ... among the nightingales." Yet Heaney's man is not a commoner but a king, and he does not merely listen to birds, he becomes one. Sweeney Astray is in fact not an original poem but a brilliant rendition of the 7th century Irish legend...
...forward line of Phillips, Jeffrey McGuire, and Brian O'Neil paced the freshman offense in the playoff games, scoring as many as five goals in a game. Other key players included Chris Sweeney, Gregory Dayton, Robert Carey, and Kevin McMahon. The team informally elected defenseman Rex Thors the Most Valuable Player of the finals...
Steve Taylor's power play goal put Providence back on top until the first of two Bob Sweeney goals deadlocked the game again at three with 49 seconds left in the first period, setting up Brown's game winning heroics in the second stanza...
...been speaking prose all his life, even composers with the most commercial motives may turn out to have been writing memorable, lasting scores. Two of the most electrifying operas of the '70s, for example, were Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita and Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd...