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...told him again about finding Girl. Just a puppy dying of starvation and beating on a garbage heap out back of San Jose. How Merilee took her up into her arms though so bad she smelled and so near death she was, and how Merilee whispered to her "we are in this together old Girl" and carried her home and started in to nursing herself and the pup back to health and life...
...years ago Larry Terrell entered an Amherst squash court prepared to face Harvard's Jose "Boom-Boom" Gonzalez for the National Junior Squash Championship. Gonzalez was already on the court, having his picture taken with the trophy...
Yesterday, Jose Gonzalez entered the Hemenway squash courts ready to face Terrell in the finals of the Harvard intrasquad competition for the Foster Cup. Terrell was already on the court, exhibiting the finest squash technique of the collegiate competition in a match between Larry Terrell and Larry Terrell...
...reader, in Martin Buber's words, to "imagine the real," the overwhelming total reality of the children's actual lives. As he tells the story of First Street, you live nine-year-old Maxine's ebullience, you share her wondrous obsession with what sex is really about. You live Jose's paralyzing fear and hatred of all things having to do with school; you feel at one moment his absolute uncertainty, at the next his indomitable but anxious pride, at the next the growing sense of security in his relationship with George, his tutor and friend. Dennison lures you into...
...romantic presumptions of Lang's heroes push them against others' survival. Whether Greek heroes or ordinary Jose, they are drawn gradually into a world in which every act is connected to every other. But this world is society, whose interconnections Lang develops more realistically than fatalistically...