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VIVIAN GORNICK MUST have been a precocious child. By the age of five she had adopted a world view; unfortunately she kept it intact through four decades. Born during the mid-1930s in a Jewish enclave of the Bronx, Gornick identified with her father's working class bonds long before she recognized the significance of her religion or sex. While her more orthodox peers studied the Commandments, she memorized the basic formulae for good and evil: "Labor=Socialism, Capital=Nationalism...
Over the burned-out tenements and crowded streets of The Bronx in New York City rises a stately crystal dome filled with subtropical orchids and a grove of graceful palms. A waterfall tumbles from fern-covered volcanic rocks, and the warm, aromatic scent of lemons and oranges fills the air. Last week one of the chilliest, dreariest; mushiest winters in years was refusing to let go. But New Yorkers could celebrate eternal spring sous verre. The New York Botanical Garden Conservatory had just opened after two years of costly restoration...
...conservatory was not always such a garden of delights. It was completed in 1902 with Carnegie, Vanderbilt and Morgan money. But like the neighboring streets in The Bronx, it eventually fell victim to the city's financial woes. By the '60s, hundreds of the 17,000 glass panes had been replaced with plywood. Kids had shattered the crystal casements with bricks and BB guns and carved their initials into the trunks of the cacti. When the steam mains broke down along with the ventilation and heating systems, most of the rarer and more temperamental plants died...
...very upset about the progress of soccer in the United States. The people in the pro circuit haven't shown enough interest in the American player," complained Shep Messing. That was six years ago, before the Bronx-born, Harvard-educated goalie became famous for eating glass, keeping a pet boa constrictor, posing nude for a Viva centerfold and playing on last year's championship New York Cosmos soccer team. Messing, 28, is no longer upset, having just signed a $100,000 per-year contract with the fledgling Oakland Stompers, making him the highest-paid American soccer player...
...Bronx-bred Gene Bentz bombed from the left corner to up the visitors' lead to 61-40. Free, who sat out the last ten minutes of the first half with three fouls but still scored 16 points, then applied the coup de grace when he slam-dunked for an in-surmountable 77-54 bulge with 5:00 left in the game...