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...with complaints about shins changed on bikes which were "obstructing the public way," Acting Chief Tierney ordered six police officers to move all bikes left on the sidewalks in front of the Harvard Coop and the Cambridge Trust. Bicycles locked to posts were cut loose, and the "Harvard kids' toys," as one policeman called them, were hauled in a truck to the Central Square station...
...Chief Tierney explained that Chapter of the city ordinances strictly prohibited blocking sidewalks with bikes or scooters. Owners of bikes taken Thursday will be warned. Next time, Tierney said, consequences will be much more serious...
...police will eliminate the presence of bikes from sidewalks on Quincy, Cambridge, and Walker streets. "We expect to pick up about a truck load every day until the nuisance is stopped. Pedestrians have a right to free passage and we're going to see that they get it," said Tierney...
...mother from Belfast to look after the two children, puts his wife to work, quits the magazine, and dusts off his old manuscript. The novel goes well (the reader is never told what it is about, and it may, indeed, be about a writer), but nothing else does. Mother Tierney cannot understand Brendan's wife, and is shocked by the paganism of his household; she baptizes the children in the bathroom. The wife resents everything-Mother Tierney, the novel, her job-and gets even by having an affair with the sort of slob whose pants do not have cuffs...
...sacrifice other people for your work, but will you sacrifice yourself?" a friend asks Brendan, and at the book's end Brendan thinks the answer is yes. Supposing himself to be the cause of the calamities that have overtaken the Tierney family, he figures that he has made the supreme sacrifice to his art by turning himself into a thoroughgoing bastard...