Word: adrift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mainly on Levi's actual experiences (many prominent Italians are said to be vaguely recognizable in its pages), The Watch bobbles along without story line or character development. More than anything else, it is a series of literary angle shots of a great world capital, disorganized and politically adrift. The street scenes-Rome's open black market, the shooting of a Fascist informer by a partisan in broad daylight-read as though they had been planned as paintings, full of sensuous color and clear visual images. Here & there, The Watch has patches of writing as good as anything...
...forgot to mention one more piece of flotsam set adrift by the current trend to depopulation and bankruptcy in colleges and universities [TIME, April 16]. It is the graduate student, working toward ... an underpaid, overworked, professorial position...
Even a landlubber who only goes down to the sea in books knows that the first seamen to board a ship adrift and take her in tow can claim salvage. Last fortnight, in a Gulf of Mexico fog, the Esso oil tanker Greensboro collided with the Esso tanker Suez and caught fire, killing 38 of the Greensboro's 42-man crew. The captain and crew of a rival tanker Virginia, which was nearby, saw a chance to invoke the sea's ancient...
...spectacle of "Admiral" Carver, adrift in the Thames, was almost too much for the British, whose sensitivity on the subject of U.S. admirals, even in a racing shell, had been recently heightened by the appointment of a U.S. officer to command NATO's sea forces. As Carver was hauled dripping to the shore, the crowd burst into a tumult of delighted ribbing...
...train; of how the Sargo heartbreakingly fired 13 torpedoes at fat targets, only to have all 13 prove duds (flaws in the exploder mechanism plagued U.S. subs for two years); of how the Gato fetched up with an unexploded depth charge on its deck, and gingerly set it adrift in a leaky rubber boat; of how the Angler took aboard a batch of refugees which included a two-year-old, half-Filipino boy who was "smoking (and inhaling) a cigar between gulps of his dinner which he was receiving at his mother's breast"; of how the Tautog, with...