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...decade since the dumpy, sometimes disheveled 47-year-old coach took over the reins from Butch van Breda Kolff, Princeton has logged a 201-91 record, swiping three Ivy titles in the process. In the same period, just to put you in perspective (Crimson diehards, close your eyes now), Harvard has gone 108-147 (open, please...
...Bill van Breda Kolff b. Heyward Dotson...
...Driesell, and his recruiting genius, Ravelling. Whether Driesell is a good technical coach is open to debate. His 176-65 record during 12 seasons at Davidson was well above average, but not in the same league with that of John Wooden, Adolph Rupp, Al McGuire or Butch Van Breda Kolff when he was at Princeton. It was been speculated that Ravelling recruits the horsepower. Lefty fills the house, and whatever happens from that point is purely coincidental. Still, it would seem that most colleges, if offered the glittering prospect of national prominence and perhaps the NCAA title, would jump...
...when he is but twelve, leads to his first sexual experience, the fathering of a never-to-be-seen son, and an agonizing separation. His next amorous adventure, initiated by Beefy when they both turn up at Trinity College in Dublin, is with a poor working-class girl named Breda. For that, he and Beefy are both booted from college. An engagement to wealthy Miss Fitzdare ends in a tragic riding accident. And, trapped into an ugly, upper-class London marriage, he is further betrayed by his scheming wife. Always Balthazar is seduced and somehow left abandoned. Always he retreats...
...book is tragic and almost elegiac, the individual scenes are often hilarious and demonstrate Donleavy's adeptness at using his lyrical Joycean prose to explore human emotions. A scene of touching pathos, for example, is broken up when Balthazar is discovered naked and feverishly ill in Breda's bed by her employer's wife. The female fight that follows is unmatched in literature for its comic ferocity. Hair curlers are grabbed, bellies butted, Balthazar's breakfast food spilled, bottles of urine knocked over, dresses ripped-all while Balthazar lies abed and the mistress's husband...