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...Only Child, by Frank O'Connor. Born in a Cork slum, the author writes with cheerful clarity of his pitiable boyhood and his fey, gallant mother...
...years after he graduated from the University of Michigan, Ted Moscoso had accomplished much. He entered his family's wholesale drug business, helped build it to thriving good health. Then he joined the city of Ponce's Housing Authority, constructed thousands of homes for slum dwellers. Then, having had a hand in the blueprint for Operation Bootstrap, he was told to make it work...
...story concerns the pitiful boyhood and youth of Michael O'Donovan (Frank O'Connor is a pen name) in a wet, ruined, pious and oppressed Cork slum. Young Michael was heir to every misery that could afflict a boy: bad teeth, bad eyes, failure and constant canings at school, disgrace in his first wretched jobs, and the horror of a miserly, sententious and drunken father. James Joyce's squalid boyhood in Dublin was a princely origin compared with the Tartarean depths of little Mick O'Donovan's life in Cork. Yet by some miracle...
...Side. The first miracle involves his own nature. He lived in dreams, and as a man of 58 he still knows the boyhood truth that all children are slightly daft and that imaginative children are plain off their rocker. In the midst of this Cork slum, screaming with malice, he lived among "Invisible Presences"-imaginary young aristocrats at British public schools about whom he read in penny weeklies of the sort that excited the wrath of Etonian George Orwell. Through these stories, barefoot Mick was initiated into the code of the young English gentleman. Naturally it got him into...
Behind Dunster House the Cambridge slum unrolls its several miles of quiet grandeur. Even to the most casual observer, this area should suggest that Harvard is not the came when the battle began, the fact that itself. While the University has been sleeping and so fancying, the adjacent area has been deteriorating, has become in many places a breeding ground for squalor and its concomitant juvenile delinquency. Such conditions (among others) must have a decided effect on a university that also has a critical housing problem for its married and graduate students and instructors. And the slum problem is only...