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...some terrible scenes," Jaroff says, "but at least people had a little warning and could duck into storm shelters. When an earthquake strikes, there is no place to hide." Golden drew on an expertise in geology that he began cultivating years ago as a student at the Bronx High School of Science. A denizen of New York City's high-rises, he finds the whole subject of earthquakes discomforting as well as fascinating. But New York, he notes, has its advantages. "Manhattan has a lot of problems," Golden explains, "but very few faults." San Francisco Correspondent John Austin feels...
Undaunted, the Secretary of State threw out the first ball-with a weak delivery-and then laughed as hard as anyone else when a few good-natured Bronx cheers echoed in the night. After the game, won by the National League, 6-3, Kissinger went down into the dressing rooms, munched some salami and recalled that when he was growing up in New York City his team had been the Yankees. "Joe DiMaggio was my favorite player," he said, "and I always admired Tommy Henrich, the way he hit in the clutch...
...singing Nearer, My God, to Thee. The rest of the city was not so blithe. In the third day of a wildcat sanitation workers' strike, mounds of garbage were rising on the sidewalks, rotting in the July heat. At night, especially in the slums of the South Bronx and Harlem, trash fires flickered and fumed in the streets like smudge pots-and, of course, there were not enough firemen to cope. "Fun City? Fear City?" the head of the firemen's union said histrionically. "This is a burning city-a dying city...
...author of The Book of Daniel, an extraordinary succès d'estime that narrowly missed the National Book Award for 1971. Despite parallels to the Rosenberg atom-spy case, the novel has an anguished life all its own. Many of its scenes were set in the Bronx neighborhood where Doctorow grew up. Part of Ragtime also has resonances from the Doctorow past, principally from the New York City suburb of New Rochelle, where the author now lives with his wife and three children...
Doctorow's mother was a pianist and his father owned a record and musical-instrument store in Manhattan's Hippodrome Theater building-components of Ragtime's vanished New York. After graduating from the select Bronx High School of Science, he studied literature at Kenyon College in Ohio. It was the kind of education that sharpened his critical faculties at the expense of his creative talents. "I had to purge myself of the sense of the writer as an intellect," he recalls. The purge has worked. Ragtime is free of the self-consciousness of form that mars most...