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...didn't do anything unusual." ...Now that Vancouver manager Ed Nottle is in the news again for skippering his team after being ejected by wearing the costume of the local mascot, a conversation he had with a fan while managing Oakland's West Haven affiliate is worth recalling. The youngster called out to Nottle, who wears number one. "Are you Billy Martin?" When Nottle replied in the negative, the fan asked. "Do you know Billy Martin?" Nottle replied, "I thought I knew Billy Martin. I thought he was my friend. But he's sent me out here to manage...
...again rampaged through the streets, despite calls from the I.R.A. itself for calm as the organization prepared its martyr's farewell. Cars and other vehicles were overturned and burned as impromptu barricades. As they had in previous weeks, plumes of smoke from Molotov cocktails hung over Belfast. One youngster blew himself up as he tried to plant a crudely made bomb in that city; a Belfast policeman was shot to death. Another youth died during a riot-caused auto crash. The violence spread to the Irish Republic, where a Dublin gang ran amuck along fashionable Dawson Street, hurling rocks...
...young people's efforts at escape, but to their attempt to return and link up with what seems to them a generational rite of passage. That is original, and Director Kurys has a shrewd and sympathetic eye for adolescent foibles. In Caron the director has found a youngster who, though she has never acted before, has vulnerability and intelligence. Still the film seems inconsequential. Anne and her friends learn a few things and grow up a notch or two, the way people always do in stories of this kind...
...child is born with a putty face: gaping hole for a mouth, eyes spaced widely apart, the facial bones not yet developed. Another, born without any bone in his nose, has nostrils projecting forward so grotesquely that his face resembles that of a pig. A third youngster loses his jawbone in an accident, and, as a result, his teeth are about to fall...
This message is, to say the least, a strong discouragement to upward striving. The urban or rural youngster, the immigrant, the dropout already look at the library, the research library, with awe. Unless encouraged to use these facilities, these tools of upward mobility, they willnever even approach them, and simply regard libraries, research, higher education, as part of the "other world" and those who are a part of this other world as enemies. The final discouragement would be to say "you're not going to want to use this anyway. So what if we charge a fee to those...