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...SLAVE-GIRL Rosalie is the daughter of the Diola Bayangumay, a self-willed tribeswoman. Through the mother's eyes we glimpse both the glory of the culture bound by ties of survival and love and its swift, callous destruction by agents who are only understood by the tribe as evil spirits of the night. Bayangumay, who even on the slave-ship wants to swallow her tongue and sings "tomorrow I will cease to be an animal," is the prime source of her daughter's intransigence. The product of a drunken orgy of sailors and their black cargo, Rosalie, born with...
CHEEVER'S STORIES are packed with detail and cross-current. They all end up saying more than a swift reading of the action would deliver. "The Four Alarms"--the first story in the book, and one of the cleverest--tells about a fairly young suburban housewife who tires of teaching and goes into theatrics, and winds up acting in a circa '69 nude play (Ozamanides II). "Oh, I'm so happy," she says when she gets the part. "Oh, how wonderful and rich and strange life can be when you stop playing out the roles that your parents wrote...
Starter Barry Malinowski and reliever Tom O'Neill, on the other hand, kept Tufts's halves of the innings moving at a rather swift pace as they combined for a four-hitter. A near gale wind blowing out toward center field helped the hitting on both sides. Tufts collected two of its three runs on a wind-blown homer in the third off the bat of Jumbo starting pitcher Mitch Shaw...
...months later, Tiger coach Bill Quackenbush played out the script of Swift's analysis perfectly, as the Princeton athletic department announced that Quackenbush and freshman mentor John Semler were to play a little game of coaching musical chairs. Quackenbush will step down to take Semler's job as freshman hockey coach at Princeton, and Semler will assume the varsity position. The change is effective immediately...
...clear whether Quackenbush decided to call it quits on his own, or, to use Swift's words, was "kicked out." Nevertheless, when the Tiger icemen face off on the next season, Quackenbush will be on the bench of the Tiger freshmen rather than leading the varsity...