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...violence, however stylized, may offend others. One transition in the action of the play simulates the passing of two years by a recitation of the Hebrew names for the months, repeated twice. The beginning of the play is a bizarre surging of voice and motion that rises to a fever pitch; some lines which sound strange at first haunt the whole work--they keep surfacing out of situations with a new significance each time. Many points seem to gape unresolved for a while until they suddenly snap into a coherent idea. Even last Monday new things were being tried...
...must go down to the seas again, For the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call That may not be denied. -Sea-Fever, John Masefield...
When does a pastime become a life-sustaining passion? For Yachtsman Cornelius ("Kees") Bruynzeel, a Dutch timber tycoon, it began when he set his first sail at age five. Now, at 73, Bruynzeel still has an acute case of sea fever. But it is tempered by a serious heart condition. Nonetheless, he was determined to enter this year's prestigious Capetown-to-Rio yacht race if it killed him. The 3,500-mile ocean grind might do exactly that, Bruynzeel's doctors warned; they ordered him to remain on the dock. He refused, explaining that a bracing...
...society. If that conflict annealed the Union, it also lacerated the country so deeply that it lost hold of what Alistair Cooke called "the glory that will never be restored." World War I presented a grave shock to isolationist America. Afterward, the nation suffered what amounted to a great fever of xenophobia and anxiety, and the recovery period was appropriately dubbed the Aspirin...
...Athletic fever extended beyond mere journalistic interest. Around 1885, Crimson editors began to form their own teams, taking on all comers. The Board voted to establish a Crimson baseball team, and to offer "cups to be played for by competing nines." The 1906 history reprints a New York Tribune report of October 11, 1885, which says: "The Harvard scratch races were rowed this afternoon over the one-fourth mile course in front of the Harvard Boat House, Charles River.... (In the first heat) The Crimson crew won easily in 1 min. 39 1 2 s. The second heat...