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...have been avoided, but was instead partially spurred on by a mix-up in orders. Fearing the worst, the ship's executive officer, Commander Ben Cloud, part black and part Indian, ordered all the blacks involved to the stern of the ship and the Marine guards toward the bow. A minute later, the captain countermanded the order, according to one witness, barking into the intercom "something like, 'If someone were to write a book on this cruise, this would have to be the most f-ed-up chapter. The exo has been misinformed. Problems...
...kind of parable on our troubled world," to quote the composer, Black Angels uses the surrealistic screech of amplified strings to call forth the grim world of night insects in a way the listener is not likely soon to forget. Elsewhere, the players trill with thimble-capped fingers, bow crystal glasses tuned with water, even play maracas and tam-tams. What others might have left at the level of mere gimmickry, Crumb has turned into a chilling evocation of medieval damnation and redemption. Not for easy listening, though...
...leather-paneled library, with its rosewood reading tables, has disappeared; in its place is a casino with gaming tables and one-armed bandits. The lounge area above the ballroom has become a shopping arcade. The best-located bar, which offered an intoxicating view over the ship's bow, has been turned into a kitchen. The forward observation platform, as well as the children's pool and play area and half the sheltered sports deck, have been taken over by 44 new prefabricated cabins...
This excellent biography was written by Virginia Woolf s nephew. The first sentence?"Virginia Woolf was a Miss Stephen"?sets the stance: just a slight bow to a heavy heritage. More important than Bell's style is his detachment, a quality that he certainly did not inherit. The Stephen family was part of the intellectual wing of Britain's upper middle class; Virginia's father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was a famous essayist and man of letters. Altogether, they were an excitable clan, idealistic, moralistic, painfully interdependent, swept along by unrecognized currents of passionate attraction that stopped just short...