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Samuel Hynes, 63, is a literary critic (The Auden Generation, The Edwardian Turn of Mind) and a professor of English at Princeton. These accomplishments do not figure in his narrative, which ends a few months after the war and Hynes' service as a Marine dive-bomber pilot in the Pacific. Looking back, the author is convinced that members of his generation, who grew up not in college or at jobs but training for battle, shared a secret that "made us different from those who were older or younger than ourselves, or who were...
...supposed to be a reverse 2 and 1/2 somersault, a dive where you take off from a forward position and rotate backward towards the board, finally entering a couple of revolutions later. Greene never got there...
Greene made two slow, awkward revolutions, and plunged to the water before finishing the dive, landing flat on her back. The flop gave her three scores of one, the lowest she has ever received in college competition...
Another reverse dive loomed as her first challenge. Admittedly unsure, Greene held back and only received average marks for the dive. Still in eighth place...
...Winning the Outstanding Diver award meant much more to me than taking first on the 3-meter board," Greene said. "That dive was such a fluke thing that I can't worry about it. It will never happen again...