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...Morris thesis is that France was not, as most historians have assumed, the great champion of American independence. France, he demonstrates, was primarily interested in its war with George III, and considered the U.S. just a handy stick to beat Britain with. Even before the war was over, the Bourbon monarchy did everything diplomatically possible to reduce, partition and even scuttle the brash young nation that had dared dispute the rule of royalty. And during the peace negotiations, France cynically tried to sell the U.S. down the river for the sake of an overall settlement with Britain and Spain...
Allan Sherman decided early that he had to laugh. His father was an automobile mechanic and inventor who belted down bourbon by the glassful and disappeared when Allan was six. His mother was a fun-loving flapper who had four husbands and bought books with jackets to harmonize with her draperies. Sherman grew up in Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and New York. After 21 public schools and the University of Illinois, he packed up a suitcase full of his songs, settled down in New York for seven lean years as a starving television gagwriter. Then...
...Carter floated about, a bit taller than the others, laughing louder, slapping harder, and drinking faster. He could have pinched any skirt in the place (and did pinch a few). He danced tricky dance steps. He harmonized with the calypso band. Never looking, he plucked a bourbon-on-the-rocks from a silver tray and swung the glass to his lips. It was the same involuntary motion (though quite a different gesture) as the bullet-swatting in my dream. He was very gay. His wife looked beautiful. When the party was over, he flashed a grin, waved to a score...
...sail-at least not much or far. Says Dave Parker, executive vice president of the Hatteras Yacht Co.: "People who buy these yachts aren't sailors-they're landlubbers. They like to get there fast and drink long." And to enjoy Beethoven in stereo and bourbon on the rocks, the owner of a modern yacht must hook up to a marina's power line (and he often wants a telephone line) almost as soon as he shuts off his engine; his appliances draw too much juice to allow for quiet nights lying at anchor in secluded coves...
...control−to declarations that "violence must be deplored, but . . ." The vital counsel of patience is lost in the competition among leaders to say, "Baby, you've got the whole world coming to you now"when the unalterable fact, as certain as the aging of a good bourbon, is that much time will elapse before all Negroes are free, black...