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...average Negro in Mississippi hates everybody white--they've never met a white person on their side." He paused and then continued, "No Negro can build up a Negro's confidence in a white man; the cat has to come down and do it himself. It's a very tender process...
...Writer Waterhouse has done his real work beyond easy symbolism and easier outrage, in the Dickensian world of created character. He is what a writer should be, no pamphleteer but a patient and compassionate exhibitor of the tender and grisly oddments that find themselves locked up, helter-skelter, in the strange rag-and-bone shop of the human heart...
...there was method to their masochism. Jacques Lacarrière, a French historian who spent some time in surviving desert monasteries, has written a tender, subtle account of the hermits. Their existence, as Lacarriere unfolds it, was not so strange as it seems at first glance; and it was perhaps a reasonable alternative to the world they left behind...
...farther than the distance from living-room sofa to TV tuning dial in years. For these, the brisk uphill pace, over boulders, across the brooks and fallen trees, was arduous going. By the time they sprawled out for lunch, on ledge rocks by a waterfall, blisters were rising on tender feet...
Also headed for a varsity slot may be the Yardling goalie, Bill Fitzsimmons. This year's goal tender, Brandy Sweitzer, departs with graduation, but if Fitzsimmons wants the position be will have to outshine several J.V. goalies and Wade Welch, the second man on the varsity...