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...world presumably flounders around any which way. The unrelaxed tension in Author Powers' stories is the pull of the real against the ideal. In an earlier book, Prince of Darkness, he found a salient image for that tension in a priest eating his breakfast: "He jabbed at the grapefruit before him, his second, demolishing its perfect rose window." Essentially, this is the perennial fall of man before the images of truth, beauty and faith to which he aspires...
Down in Bradenton, Fla., the Boston Red Sox and the Milwaukee Braves battled eleven innings before settling for a 7 to 7 tie in a Grapefruit League game. Red Sox rookie catcher Haywood Sullivan was the batting hero of the day, belting a three-run homer in the seventh inning...
Three out of four oranges and nine out of ten grapefruit produced...
Though they had no intention of accepting the offer, the Adamses felt they must pay First Baptist the courtesy of a visit. The pulpit committee put its best foot forward with a bang-up dinner at Richmond's Hotel John Marshall. The customary blessing was followed by fresh grapefruit, which, to everyone's horror, turned out to be liberally spiked with liquor. Ted Adams (who has never taken a drink) merely laughed, and everyone managed to get it down. When the dessert appeared, it turned out to be fruit floating in rum. Says Esther Adams now: "We thought...
...Sihanouk's invitation, thousands of sarong-clad Cambodian Smiths and Mrs. Smiths thronged into the city to participate in a national congress to suggest constitutional amendment and nominate a Premier. All an adult citizen needed to do to be a "congressman" was to present a coconut, a grapefruit, or some similar token, to King Norodom Suramarit, Sihanouk's father. Some 30,000 availed themselves of the opportunity...