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...surprisingly short match, McNerney jumper out to a 14-0 lead before scoring a pin at the 2:40 mark of the bout. Humbling one formidable opponent after another, McNerney then handled Randy Conrad, the powerfully built Big Eight Conference Champ from Iowa...
...boys were taken to court and tried for the crime of rape. Fuzzy was kept in a wire cage during the trial, at which the two were found guilty. They were imprisoned for two years, until their lawyer, Conrad Lynn, could persuade Eleanor Roosevelt to personally arrange an intervention by President Eisenhower...
...LAST THING moviegoers heard from Southeast Asia was Apocalypse Now, in which Robert Duvall glored in early morning napalm raids and Marlon Brando muttered T.S. Eliot as the flames of the Vietnam War engulfed him. In that ill-fated reworking of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Francis Ford Coppola confirmed the capacity of great directors for self-indulgence, as he frantically flailed to capture all the anguish and horror of a decade...
Such a character was Captain Mac Whirr of Joseph Conrad's short story Typhoon, a man whose physiognomy was "the exact counterpart of his mind: it had no pronounced characteristics whatever; it was simply ordinary, irresponsive, and unruffled." Mac Whirr, said Conrad, had "just enough imagination to carry him through each successive day." Yet that meager imagination became the hero of the tale, for when a monstrous storm arose at sea, and the good captain was advised by all the voices of reason to sail around and behind the trouble, he of the consistent mind responded, "A gale...
...sense, Conrad was saying that the hard noses of the world account for its stabilities, and quite often this is true. Certainly, if one were to name a single quality common to world leaders nowadays, that quality would be consistency. Reagan, Thatcher, Begin, Andropov, the Pope; all different, all stubborn, all operating on presumptions and premises that almost never bend or vary. Bernard Berenson observed, "Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." But if consistency were not judged virtuous to some degree, it would hardly be in popular demand, nor would politicians...