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Farragan's main misfortune is his family, a pious, prejudiced, patriotic Philadelphia clan, grown rich in trucking. Sister Anna keeps her pistol-carried as protection against black rapists-wrapped in a rosary. Brother Jim echoes her thundering rage through his favorite weapon, the telephone. Behind them looms the memory of Mother-who railroaded one son into the priesthood and choreographed the death of another because he showed homosexual leanings...
...Gregory has written a memoir of the first half of his life. His account of growing up in a comfortable, mildly eccentric Milwaukee clan, drifting into radical politics in the '20s and discovering the depth of his commitment to poetry is sometimes a near hypnotized surrender to a series of rather static reveries...
...Campion loathes and suppresses his Christian name, Rudolph, which makes it all the more astonishing to discover-eleven books later-that he has called his own son Rupert. Gradually, too, as the series progresses, a caste of semiregulars assembles: the policemen Gates and Luke, the trouble-prone Faraday clan, Sister Val. Perhaps the apogee of Campion's career occurred early in World War II in one of the best episodes, Traitor's Purse. He is called upon to save his embattled country from a massive, ruinous counterfeiting scheme, and he does-despite the fact that throughout the book...
Losing Battles, by Eudora Welty. This story of the reunion of a vast clan in the Mississippi hill country is like a home movie shot by an enraptured genius...
...contrast, as the play moves into its second half, Jack is left alone with a three-nosed marriage aspirant named Roberta (Roberta's clan, incidentally, wear porcine masks which, as opposed to the others, I found really funny). Joan E. Thompson, one of the founders of HTC, is excellent as Roberta, whose task it is to win Jack's compliance in a marriage which will complete his emasculation. Jack, played with flair by Bernie Duffy, balks, then gradually weakens as Roberta titillates him with stories about a swimming guinea pig, a drowning baby and a Phoenix-like stallion. The last...