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...time, Marines learned to look up to Krulak, whose persnickety preciseness had won him the mocking sobriquet of "The Brute" from Naval Academy classmates. Marines found the nickname appropriate. Merciless with incompetents, Krulak attracted feral loyalty as well as hatred. Early in his career he showed that there was nothing undersized about his brain. A specialist in the "dirty tricks" of unconventional warfare, he used hell-raising tactics on Choiseul Island during World War II to such advantage that the Japanese believed Krulak's Marine paratrooper battalion was a full division. At 43, he became the corps' youngest...
...girls or women. I think the reason for so little interest by boys is that they have so many sports, girls have so few." Kansas City Riding Instructor Jan Dickerson confirms that 80% of her students are girls. Says she: "Boys think riding is a matter of brute strength. Girls are gratified that they become good riders through developing their skills and fine sense of touch." Adds Carol Metzger, 40, of Portuguese Bend, Calif., whose daughter Katie, 8, rides the family's Welsh pony Blue Jay: "All the boys around here surf, all the girls ride...
...published in Russian in 1928, when he was a 28-year-old émigré living in Berlin. It was recently roughed into English by Nabokov's son Dmitri, then tightened and buffed to a cold brilliance by the author. "Of all my novels," says Nabokov, "this bright brute is the gayest. Expatriation, destitution, nostalgia had no effect on its elaborate and rapturous composition...
...never allows the reader to forget that fiction is essentially artifice. In King, Queen, Knave, the artifice may be a little too obvious, but intelligence and wit keep it working smoothly to the end. Nabokov himself could well have been thinking of this "bright brute" when he described a certain variety of butterfly he once discovered in the French Alps: "It may not rank high enough to deserve a name, but whatever it be-a new species in the making, a striking sport, or a chance cross-it remains a great and delightful rarity...
Chances are that the Crimson freshmen will have a tough time keeping up with Penn's brute-boat. Weight might be the telling difference over the entire course...