Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sums it up near the end of the book. "'My ideals,' he said, 'at least keep a mediocre author plugging to the end...
There is a theory behind this seeming nonchalance. Bolles believes that a crewman, if forced to row his heart out for months on end, will go stale both physically and psychologically. The task is not to build him up to superhuman proportions by sheer foot-pounds of energy expended, but to train him to peak efficiency at the exact time the race is scheduled...
...sparkle) and sailing on azure waters in a speedy little boat (which makes Miss Bergman's silky blonde hair flash and sparkle) are only a few of the things which make Mr. Howard's eyes flash and sparkle. As all good things must, this intermezzo comes to an end and the couple, realizing that they can never be happy with Howard's family waiting for him back in Sweden, resume their separate careers...
...have described is indeed the teacher and his right his duty, to search honestly for truth; but the ultimate objective is to strike through the teacher to the student himself. The ultimate intention is to restrict the range of ideas which the student may examine for himself to the end that the minds of all students may examine for himself to the end that the minds of all students may be melded to a "safe" and fairly rigid pattern...
...plot is plentifully larded with other lurid items: a suicide attempt, a dream which shows the end of the world coming when everybody panics at seeing some dirty words mysteriously written in the sky, and another dream in which Jesus Christ passes along the Wylie doctrine to the men in the plane about to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima...