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...Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, between TV appearances and clothes-shopping expeditions, Whitestone receives a guest. Dressed in a T shirt and a polka-dot vest and pants, she is an enthusiastic and fluent conversation partner. She readily acknowledges not being part of Deaf culture -- "I don't know it very well. I have seen it" -- and tends to refer even to small d deaf as "them...
John Yossarian, the reluctant bombardier and principled antihero of Catch- 22, is back, older -- he is 68 -- and still trying to convince doctors -- this time at a posh Manhattan hospital rather than at a military clinic on the Italian island of Pianosa -- that he is sick. Yossarian remains wary and weary of a world that holds out the prospect of his own death: "I wish the daily newspapers were smaller and came out weekly." After successful careers in advertising and on Wall Street, he does consulting work for Catch-22's amoral entrepreneur, Milo Minderbinder. Milo, no surprise, now owns...
...cleverly built foundation underlies Mallory's Oracle (Putnam; 286 pages; $21.95), by newcomer Carol O'Connell; the author relates that her flamboyant main character, a young cop named Kathleen Mallory, was a Manhattan street kid into her early teens. The experience left her a borderline sociopath, and since she is both gorgeous and unusually bright, she can cause a lot of trouble. Her beloved adoptive uncle, an old police lieutenant, is murdered as the novel begins. She undertakes a lone-wolf investigation, having been forbidden to do so, and wanders like a gun-packing Alice into a mirror world...
Columbia is close behind, with a 4-0-1 record overall and a 1-0 record in the league. The Lions' non-league schedule has featured wins over such Manhattan (5-1), Adelphi (3-1) and St. Francis (2-0), and a tie against upstart Long Island (2-2). In its first league game of the year on Saturday, the team soundly trounced Harvard...
Catholic colleges and universities across the country are offering core curriculums in the best liberal arts tradition. At Manhattan College in Riverdale, N.Y., I attended Dr. Thomas J. Smith's required course "Classic Origins of Western Culture" in 1993. The topic of the day was the Tale of the Trojan Horse from Virgil's Aeneid...