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Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), August 3, 1977, p. 10

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10 THE Wednesday August 1917 Enjoys full life despite Multiple Sclerosis Sarah a name of a vcr rial woman in Kalian Hills is married with two children lias accepted the limitations multiple sclerosis has put on her life tint she is continuing lo lift In the fullest People underestimate handicipped people understand the body is a shell lhe mind is I separate she said My mind is active and others treated me as if I am a alow thinking I have deep feelings she BOOK REVIEW added j nil 1 would never knowingly hurt anyone vvhere- other persons don stop to IhinV before they speak Sarah remained and relaxed during the interview often a quick would a mlsehicvlous lint in her As prepared she displaced her spider plant which recently luted twins she emlrnctcd the disuse she wis up in modi rn last lift of Toronto id no tune Id grow In iiiuful pi ints read The of the llbnry has large print books are easy to read also the offered her thi use of stories recorded on it her eyes art too lired So fir refused to the but tor blind person these In multiple to dre oecumneetpitel In the brain impairment and llf si relief to finally learn what was causing her to suddenly lose strength in her limbs causing her to till down and know why her eyesight would It is a hard disease to diagnose and the doctors used process of i itton be tore naming the discise multiple Halt the time she would suffer these symptoms but by time she reached a doilur the symptoms would hive passed I if was going nuts s The mine for MS is unknown Perhaps MS is a virus that is penning In their or Ms If hey suffer a grnl deal of or perhaps MS lies dormant In everyone and only triggered In certain Individuals But whaKvir the this strong willed worn in dots not torment herself with needless questioning she simply con llh tin inly tasks Some days it Is not possible her to get out of bed which she says Is in attack and not to In bed but holds a picture In her mind of sitting the no I always within hours is sitting at that irrqduei me Tom rues Wed Sat 99 SPECIAL THIS WEEK Lady loves New York can you believe It It very well be possible write a truly original book any more the Influence of writers who came before are too great There certainly have been many books already in the genre of The Lady Loved New by I Gordon it and ITT pages And not only novels there have been television productions films as well Gordon story of aged Alice Melville Ilk in Jew York smoothly novel of old school with a hat slower pace we typically works There la also an almost ever present feeling pervading It but this Is not necessarily a had thing because observation refers more to style and ap to actual episodes or characters There is for example a distinct hint of BBC TV Upstairs Downstairs in the book The characters and attitudes of servants play an important pari in the novel and they the author well in his description of the heroine s character One is also occasionally Bergman Stri berries about the more than octogenarian Alice sitting and reminiscing by her Vancouver window which opens on ihe magnificent COMMON Totems But far the strongest similarity is to two fairlv novels one Canadnn and the other American Laurence in The Stone Angel has much in common with Alice while the episodic nowsrecl like background of The Lady Who Loved New York very closely follows the format of I Ragtime Both hooks deal with thecentury New York but while often an and sometimes clumsily attempts to work In famous and personalities of the period Gordon never allows his knowledge hlslory to the best of him President McKtnlcy s assassination and a party at the Vandcrbilts mansion are always merely backdrops never upstaging principal actors There is however little the personal intensity that issa ehnraiterislic of Margaret Laurences Mice of course Ins been to hide her feelings of the mores characteristic of class into which she has been Perhaps also she has been shielded lift hers her family even to herself is i gentle elean and sort of thing her father who commits suicide in has the decency to put on his underwear beforehand Oh And it seems hit whenever one of his ehanelers with he beginnings of a sordid truly sinister situation he smartly pulls on the reins and sends his hone a different direction What seems to be a deadly kidiipping attempt on Ahc turn v iid hilarious comedy of errors while a sexual deviate who plans lo assault her at Coney Island only manages expose lis incompetence before Alice makes her Hire we have what would probably qualify as Gordon serious in The Lady Who Loved New Inv and it somewhat incredulously Alice emerges from each crisis as Jomcthipg of the gods tier shows the beginnings either deep or mime depressive state hut his condition never really develops mlo whit be considered a problem for Alice not nit tint would seriously crimp hi r style and mentioned In the book and wonders jus how a wnmin with Alice perception could have hiving iny serious things connected with semitism makes its appearance in her husband and shows proper moral fibre in rejecting it When liter her husband diath slit of his existence Mice shows in unusual imi tolerance 1H But allot these ire r Police beat A car radio antenna was stolen on July from a vehicle which was parked on Main and Mill Streets in Acton police said Police said unknown persons broke inlo a home on Baylor Crcs Georgetown July Entry was gained by removing a screen from a basement window but residents reported nothing stolen Unknown persona glued telephone receiver to the phone body turned the stove on and placed a pot egg shells and assorted food in slave In a Kingham Road home In Acton July I aid flowers were also pulled out by Ihe roots in a rear garden Two statues one a male negro Jockey boy and one white tramp were stolen July from Hit Georgetown im si holes in it the on neighbor he I tin sound it J iii I 11 iv mi LIMESTONE ALL SIZES AB GRAVEL FILL AND TOP SOIL W HAINES 3 DURHAM ST 3302 8774593 ANDYS IMPORT AUTO SERVICE 71 Rd Georgetown 14 xperance on Import Persona Hied Service Spffcfallifng on Volvo Toyota To All Imports Pick up or flm I by happenings initialed by else Alice not only is by the author she shows definite signs not even bung aware there is potential for a woman of Not even in front of lhat window opening on lhe Pacific it bit loscrve as mirror times not even there is she might have Consequently she dies calmly and largely having wasted her life in for singularly lnml and elusive goals lerhips meint it way Perhaps his Alice is to be a heroine of tar more tragic propurlons than is shown an the surfaei But then the reader would have to be much belter prepared for such an interpretation lhrouth the alteration of some ot Alice life The way the book reads it lends to make Alice much too insensitive a actor that gives the novel a In air Unfortunately It is the presence of this air that brings it a notch lower on the quality scale While The Lady Who oved York is a good G FRUIT M Gralph 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