Word: details
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Homer Lea was a hunchback who wanted to be a hero. Before he was 18 he had mastered every detail of every battle Napoleon ever fought. While studying law at Leland Stanford University he made the acquaintance of some San Francisco Chinese who set his imagination to sparking on the coming Chinese Revolution. Knowing that he would never be accepted by the U.S. Army, he went to China, offered his services to Premier Kong Yu Wei, who was secretly plotting against the Dowager Empress...
Above average in intelligence (candidates are nominated by Congressmen, but must pass a stiff entrance examination), midshipmen are trained in a strict code of regulations that governs every detail of their lives down to gum-chewing. By the time he graduates, a midshipman can be recognized anywhere by his straight carriage (not as stiff as West Point's), his poise, his fluency (every midshipman is trained in after-dinner speaking), his robust health...
Best thing about Genesee Fever is the wealth of Carmer's authentic, affectionately painted regional period detail. He makes such dusty props as oiled-paper windows, Conestoga wagons and Liberty Poles as fresh as a glimpse at the youth of one's greatgrandparents; makes a succulent novelty of such frontier diet as pickerel, wild turkey, the bright yellow Indian corn...
...flight actresses, gives a restrained and intelligent performance as the murderess who kills her benefactress in order to provide a home for her two helpless sisters. Louis Hayward is excellent as her conniving nephew. And each of the supporting roles is masterfully handled, with an attention to detail that fills every scene with an unmatched intensity and impact...
Into the individual tales of the team's Seniors of whom "eight members started the Yale game in their Sophomore year, and for three years they carried the football load for their University," Harlow delves with detail and humor...