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RIDERS IN THE CHARIOT (532 pp.)-Patrick White-Viking...
...miles from London. At the helm having a go at the British driver's test: the richest American, Oilman J. Paul Getty, 68, a 50-year road veteran who had let his U.S. license expire. After successfully wheeling through the test despite the handicap of his outsized chariot, the thriftiest of billionaires solemnly explained: "I drove this because it's the only...
...trombone clarity. The Grandisons have had little musical training. They left the sawdust trail only this year, after singing in churches all over the South, to try the nightclub circuit. The four write their own arrangements, frequently substitute new words in standard spirituals-e.g. Swing down, sweet chariot/ Stop and let me ride/ Rock me, Lord/ Rock me, Lord/ Rock me, Lord/ Calm and easy...
...revenge tells Theseus that the boy has made attempts on her virtue. Theseus prays to his father, the sea god Poseidon, to destroy Hippolytus, meanwhile banishing his son from Troezen. As Hippolytus drives along the seashore, Poseidon sends a sea monster to scare his horses. Flung from his chariot, Hippolytus is entangled in the reins and cruelly dragged and mangled to death...
...schools, doctors-nothing. The French did nothing to help. Now my mother is eating rice for the first time in her life, and she is learning to read. A railroad has been built to our village, and my parents, to their wonder, can ride this wheeled chariot all the way to Hanoi." From this dedicated core Ho Chi Minh draws the guerrillas to fight his blood feud against South Viet...