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...victory kept the Bosox 21/2 games behind the storming Yankees, with 12 games remaining. The Bronx Bombers got back-to-back home runs from Lou Piniella and Reggie Jackson and a key eighth-inning infield single from Mickey Rivers to put the Brewers out to pasture, seven games out of first...
...individuals to turn the other cheek, but it does not hold that a society should operate on the principle. Turning the other cheek is an ideal, says Roman Catholic Theologian Daniel Maguire, "like a horizon to turn to. It is not a practical guide for the police in The Bronx...
...worry about the excesses of plot. A.L. Levine is what this book is all about, and Halberstam's hero rises to beat back any challenge. Levine is a marvelously charming character: a poor Jewish orphan who works his way up from the seediness of the Bronx to the sweaty good times of a travelling salesman in the South, onward into the cushy, three-piece suited life of a millionaire real-estate developer and Democratic Party kingmaker, stopping off in countless bedrooms at every chance. Weaving together flashbacks and scenes from Levine's suddenly conceived campaign for the Presidency, Halberstam chronicles...
From his bunker in Managua, Somoza defended the Guard's actions in Matagalpa. The general, a graduate of West Point who speaks English fluently, compared the rebels to "Bronx street gangs-just juvenile delinquents." While admitting that the general strike had grown worse, he insisted he would not resign before his term ends in 1981. To do otherwise, he said, would "betray the aspirations of the people of Nicaragua to live in a free society...
...island of Manhattan is many tons lighter because most of its psychiatrists have gone to Martha's Vineyard and the Hamptons on Long Island. There seems a bit less of the manic energy that existed in the 1930s when, for example, Fiorello La Guardia raced to the Bronx Terminal Market at 6:30 in the morning with a pair of buglers to announce that he was banning the public sale of artichokes because the wholesale supplier was controlled by gangsters. But New York, as always, is a state of mind; it is what you think it is. Not long...