Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These words serve as the opening to one of Godfrey Blunden's chapters. They might well be the emblem of his book. The lost works that he has sought to retrieve from oblivion are those of the crew of H.M.S. Endeavor, a fat British collier fitted out as a naval vessel and dispatched in 1768 to explore the Pacific...
...father figure, however, was far from a permissive Robinson. Cook, a brilliant, self-taught naval officer, navigator and amateur astronomer, customarily kept his Yorkshire temper and sizzling vocabulary in check. But, as revealed by his journals and the accounts of his crew, he emerges as something less than the wise and civilized commander painted by Blunden's countryman Alan Moorehead in The Fatal Impact (TIME, April 8, 1966). More Bligh than blithe, even on festive occasions Cook had a provincial prudishness about prurient talk, though he showed a fondness for admiring native women through his telescope. He insisted that...
Against Harvard, Brian Dowling and his crew "can't miss," Yale believes. Sports Information Director Charlie Loftus expressed the New Haven consensus when he jokingly told Crimson coach John Yovicsin "We would like to invite Vic Gatto to speak at our victory dinner again this year." Some joke...
...There's nothing wrong with being the sixth best in the world."-Harvard Rowing Coach Harry Parker consoling his crew after it finished last at the Olympics...
...this one is the sort of gritty cops-and-robbers movie that audiences take for granted. Coogan's Bluff has all the qualities that distinguished Siegel's previous efforts: it is fast, tough and so well made that it seems to have evolved naturally, almost without benefit of cast, crew or rehearsal. Those who are willing to look beyond this carefully nurtured air of artlessness, however, will see some of the best American moviemaking of the year...