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...final story, "In the Cockpit" by Eric Wentworth, is a tale of the physical and emotional anguish encountered by a boy on a tuna fishing expedition. Wentworth has given his story a swift pace by emphasizing the boy's progressive exhaustion as he pulls a fish up from the sea. His passages on the boy's psychological reaction to his approaching failure often seem to break the continuity of the action unnecessarily and they add a pedestrian touch to the piece...
...theme is that man's greatest moments, the instants of highest creativity or most meaningful experience, are wholly out of time. Two women attend an art show and see a picture showing Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Melville's wife. The two authors step from the picture--Melville in anguish over a passage of Moby Dick and Hawthorne trying to capture an image. As a ticking clock stops and time stands still, both men are inspired...
Senator Bricker's own brain child, an amendment to his original resolution, gave up the ghost quietly enough, but the protracted anguish came on the question of final Senate passage for a milder proposal that had been submitted by Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter George...
...hand to greet them. But plans to deck the streets in bunting and turn the vacation into a chamber-of-commerce carnival were abruptly halted on a suggestion from the White House. The official welcoming ceremonies were brief, and the list of greeters was cut down (to the anguish of many California politicos) to Governor Goodwin Knight and a few top Republicans. Within 36 hours of his arrival, Ike received 1,200 letters and telegrams, mostly invitations from politicians and movie moguls. All were politely declined...
Malraux had written: "The alcove of Vermeer, a flower painting by Chardin, give us a view of a world where man is less antlike than in his own." But, Onimus responds: "What anguish in these few lines! And, in fact, perhaps what misgivings! Does Malraux seriously believe that Vermeer's alcove, Chardin's bouquet, however beautiful they are, contain within them the power of salvation? . . . His position is untenable...